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A Summer Afternoon

by Rufus Way Smith

1882
oil on canvas
Unframed - h:101.60 w:67.30 cm (h:40 w:26 7/16 inches)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, OH

Smith, Rufus Way 
Maternal Solicitude

by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait

1873
oil on wood
Unframed - h:49.50 w:61.00 cm (h:19 7/16 w:24 inches)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, OH

Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam 
Deserted Wharf (The Old Mill at Cos Cob)

by John Henry Twachtman

c.1900-1902
oil on canvas
Unframed - h:61.50 w:51.00 cm (h:24 3/16 w:20 1/16 inches)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, OH

Twachtman, John Henrynotes
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
oil on canvas
Unframed - h:32.00 w:52.30 cm (h:12 9/16 w:20 9/16 inches)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, OH

Twachtman, John Henry 
Landscape near Granby, Connecticut

by Hendrik D. K. Van Elten

1870s
oil on canvas
h:32.00 w:54.60 cm (h:12 9/16 w:21 7/16 inches)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, OH

Van Elten, Hendrik D. K.notes
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
no dimensions avaliable

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, OH

Van Elten, Hendrik D. K. 
The Deserted Mill

by Hendrik D. K. Van Elten

1883
Etching
no dimensions avaliable

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, OH

Van Elten, Hendrik D. K. 
Sally Avery Olds

by Jeptha Homer Wade

1837
oil on canvas
Unframed - h:73.30 w:61.00 cm (h:28 13/16 w:24 inches)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, OH

Wade, Jeptha Homer 
Nathaniel Olds

by Jeptha Homer Wade

1837
oil on canvas
Framed - h:86.99 w:71.75 d:5.71 cm (h:34 3/16 w:28 3/16 d:2 3/16 inches) Unframed - h:76.50 w:61.20 cm (h:30 1/16 w:24 1/16 inches)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, OH

Wade, Jeptha Homernotes
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
oil on canvas
Framed - h:65.50 w:103.00 d:12.50 cm (h:25 3/4 w:40 1/2 d:4 7/8 inches) Unframed - h:40.20 w:78.00 cm (h:15 13/16 w:30 11/16 inches)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, OH

Whittredge, Worthingtonnotes
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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