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 | Village Scene near Albany, New York 1850 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Hart, James McDougal |  This image shows a small town to the west of James M. Hart’s home in Albany, New York. He preferred to paint intimate views of country life, rather than dramatic vistas of the wilderness, to show that man and nature could coexist in peace. In Village Scene, the comforting view of farm life, with its children, grazing cows, and picturesque... | GA |
 | Under the Elms 1872 St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Hart, James McDougal | Under the Elms is characteristic of Hart's work after the Civil War. Where he favored larger-scale depictions of unexplored wilderness in his earlier work, his later paintings are often more tranquil and refined. | GA |
 | Sunday Afternoon, Berkshire County, Mass. 1857 Harvard University Art Museums Cambridge, MA | Hart, James McDougal | GA | |
 | Picnic on the Hudson 1854 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Hart, James McDougal | GA | |
 | Morning in New England 1873 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Hart, James McDougal | rican landscape. Hart's membership in the Hudson River School is evident in the earth-tone palette and panoramic viewpoint of the scene. | GA |
 | Misty Morning on Racket Lake oil on canvas Private Collection Unknown, USA | Hart, James McDougal | GA | |
 | Midsummer 1870 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Hart, James McDougal | GA | |
 | Marine and Cattle 1884 St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Hart, James McDougal | This composition by James M. Hart illustrates how the artist's pastoral art developed during his later career. The paintings soft, tonal brushwork and expansive space almost diametrically oppose the crisp specificity of his early work. | GA |
 | Landscape with Cattle 1872 St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Hart, James McDougal | This quiet idyll is typical of the post-Civil War paintings of James Hart. A herd of cattle, trailing into the distance at the left, leads the viewer's eye from the foreground back to the rural village in the distance in a lyric style and nostalgic sensibility that evoke the approaches of the French Barbizon painters of mid-century. | GA |
 | Hazy Morning 1867 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Hart, James McDougal | GA |
- The Hudson River School
