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A Summer Afternoon by Rufus Way Smith 1882 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Smith, Rufus Way | ||
Maternal Solicitude by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait 1873 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam | ||
Deserted Wharf (The Old Mill at Cos Cob) by John Henry Twachtman c.1900-1902 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Twachtman, John Henry | In 1892, John Twachtman, one of the most imaginative of the American Impressionists, established a summer colony at Cos Cob, Connecticut. This painting depicts the Holley Mill near Cos Cob. Unlike the French Impressionists, who tended to analyze the effects of light and color in a scene, Twachtman was interested in expressing the pure poetry of color... | |
Storm Clouds by John Henry Twachtman 1880 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Twachtman, John Henry | ||
Landscape near Granby, Connecticut by Hendrik D. K. Van Elten 1870s Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Van Elten, Hendrik D. K. | Inscription: signed lower left: K. van Elten; graphite inscription on the bottom tacking margin at the left side: "Milford river" | |
Cottage by the Sea by Hendrik D. K. Van Elten Etching Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Van Elten, Hendrik D. K. | ||
The Deserted Mill by Hendrik D. K. Van Elten 1883 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Van Elten, Hendrik D. K. | ||
Sally Avery Olds by Jeptha Homer Wade 1837 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Wade, Jeptha Homer | ||
Nathaniel Olds by Jeptha Homer Wade 1837 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Wade, Jeptha Homer | The green-tinted spectacles worn by Olds were designed to protect the eyes from the intensity of Argand lamps, a type of indoor light used during the early 1800s. These lamps burned whale oil, and many people worried that its bright flames might damage eyesight.The painter of this portrait founded the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1854 and soon... | |
Landscape With Haywain by Worthington Whittredge 1861 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Whittredge, Worthington | Painted during the first year of the Civil War, this idyllic view of a farm near Dobb's Ferry, New York, proclaimed to Northern viewers the success of an agricultural system in which farmers worked their own land. The American flag hanging beside the homestead subtly alludes to the war. Such a scene was thus a critique of Southern slavery. Yet the... |
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