| Preview | Description
  | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 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... |
 | Mt. Aetna by Albert Bierstadt 1868. Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Bierstadt, Albert | |
 | Mrs. Goss by Caroline L. Ransom oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Ransom, Caroline L. | |
 | Mrs Ralph Curtis (Lisa de Wolfe Colt) by John Singer Sargent 1898 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Sargent, John Singer |
From:
Friend of the JSS Gallery
There is
another painting by Sargent that I did not see on your site. I'm not sure if it is listed anywhere on
the web, but I thought you might like to see it. It has been on exhibition in the
Cleveland Museum of Art since it was acquired in 1998. It is not a well-known
piece because it hasn't left the... |
 | Mountain Farm in the Snow by Preston Dickinson c. 1913 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Dickinson, Preston | |
 | Morning in New England by James McDougal Hart 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. |
 | Minnie Willard by Archibald M. Willard 1860s Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Willard, Archibald M. | |
 | Maternal Solicitude by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait 1873 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam | |
 | Mary Holland Bacher by Otto Henry Bacher 1891 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Bacher, Otto Henry | |
 | Leaping Trout by Winslow Homer 1889 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Homer, Winslow | Homer's Leaping Trout is one of a series of watercolors of jumping fish that he created in the 1880s and early 1890s. Scenes of trout fishing were common in English and American art of the period, but Homer's approach was unusual. He presented the scene from the viewpoint of a fish, not that of
a fisherman, thus dramatizing the subject in both... |
- Cleveland Museum of Art
