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Fort Steilacoom, W.t.

by Charles Christian Nahl

1865
Watercolor on buff paper
21.6 x 36.4 cm (8 1/2 x 14 5/16 in.) oval

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Nahl, Charles Christian 
Francis Alexander Self-Portrait 1830

by Francis Alexander

ca. 1830
Oil on canvas
61.28 x 46.04 cm (24 1/8 x 18 1/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Alexander, Francis 
Franconia Notch

by Jasper Francis Cropsey

1852
Graphite on gray paper
Sheet: 27.6 x 41.9 cm (10 7/8 x 16 1/2 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Cropsey, Jasper Francisnotes
INSCRIPTION: Lower right in graphite: Franconia Notch/ J.F.C. Sept. 10, 1852 Verso: sketch of tree branch in graphite
French Farmhouse

by Philip Leslie Hale

about 1893
oil on canvas
64.77 x 81.28 cm (25 1/2 x 32 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Hale, Philip Leslie 
French Interior

by Walter Gay

about 1905
oil on canvas
65.09 x 53.97 cm (25 5/8 x 21 1/4 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Gay, Walter 
Frieze of the Prophets (Study)

by John Singer Sargent

c. 1892
Oil on canvas
56.2 x 71.12 cm (22 1/8 x 28 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Sargent, John Singernotes
As John works at Morgan Hall (with Abbey) he toys with different conceptual ideas for his Library decorations. This particular Prophet study shows him wrestling with the arrangement. The demonstrative arms flailing upwards would indicate this was an early study for the "Despairing Profits" -- four in this case -- what would later become...
Frontier Mills, Buffalo, New York Ii

by Lefevre James Cranstone

1859–60
Watercolor on paper
Sheet: 16.6 x 28.4 cm (6 9/16 x 11 3/16 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Cranstone, Lefevre James 
Frowning Cliff, Watkins Glen, New York

by James Hope

1872
oil on canvas
60.96 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Hope, James 
Ganymede and the Eagle

by John Singer Sargent

1921
Oil on canvas
94.6 x107.3 cm (37 1/4 x42 1/4 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Sargent, John Singernotes
Notes: Special thanks to Lee Sandstead of New York, for being a friend of the JSS Gallery, for taking this picture on his trip and sharing this with us.
General Charles J. Paine

by John Singer Sargent

1904
Oil on canvas
86.68 x 72.71 cm (34 1/8 x 28 5/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Sargent, John Singernotes
General Charles Paine, was a three time defender of the America's Cup races: 1885 with the yacht "Puritan"; '86 with "Mayflower" and finally in '87 with the boat "Volunteer" -- so named for Paine's division of black volunteers he commanded during the the civil war. After graduating from Harvard, with the war underway, he joined the army and...
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