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Woman in Purple and Green

by Thomas Wilmer Dewing

1905.
Oil on panel
20 x 15 3/4 in.

New Britain Museum of American Art

New Britain, CT

Dewing, Thomas Wilmernotes
Description: Three-quarter-length portrait of a woman seated with her hands clasped in her lap. She wears a green velvet skirt with purple waist and a long-sleeved blouse with rolled collar which reveals the shoulders and low bodice.
West Rock, New Haven (East Rock, near Whitneyville)

by Frederic Edwin Church

1849.
oil on canvas.
27 1/8 x 40 1/8 in.

New Britain Museum of American Art

New Britain, CT

Church, Frederic Edwinnotes
Description: Landscape with stream in foreground, figures loading hay onto a cart at center, and the West Rock bluff in the center distance.
Wasatch Mts. Wind River Country, Wyoming

by Albert Bierstadt

1861.
oil on canvas.
26 1/2 x 40 1/2 in. (67.3 x 102.9 cm).

New Britain Museum of American Art

New Britain, CT

Bierstadt, Albert 
Time and Eternity

by John Haberle

ca.1890
oil on canvas
14 x 10 in.

New Britain Museum of American Art

New Britain, CT

Haberle, Johnnotes
Time and Eternity is an exquisitely painted and extremely detailed trompe-l'oeil still life designed to trick the eye into thinking that these are real, not painted, objects. The illusion is aided by the shallow spatial format and by the absolute clarity and precision with which the objects are painted. The extreme detail and realism made...
This Little Pig Went To Market

by Lilly Martin Spencer

1857
Oil on artist's board with hand-cut arched top.
16 x 11 7/8 in.

New Britain Museum of American Art

New Britain, CT

Spencer, Lilly Martinnotes
Description: A mother holds a child on her lap and touches his toes. They sit beside a curtained cradle. The mother wears a green dressing gown with elaborately designed borders and a white lace nightgown. Her green slippers rest on a red foot cushion.
The Hunter

by Ralph Albert Blakelock

Oil.
10 x 13 in. (cm. 25.4 x 33.0)

New Britain Museum of American Art

New Britain, CT

Blakelock, Ralph Albert 
The Boating Party

by George Wellington Waters

ca. 1870s
Oil on Canvas

New Britain Museum of American Art

New Britain, CT

Waters, George Wellington 
Terragona

by John Singer Sargent

c. 1908
Watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper mounted on board
19 1/2 x 13 7/8 inches

New Britain Museum of American Art

New Britain, CT

Sargent, John Singer 
Seal Rocks, Farallon Islands

by Albert Bierstadt

ca.1872-1877.
oil on canvas.
30 x 44 1/4 in.

New Britain Museum of American Art

New Britain, CT

Bierstadt, Albertnotes
Description: A wave crashes against a rock formation on which rest many seals. In the foreground a seal swims in the water and holds a fish in his mouth. A sea gull flies by and two other seals are in the water.
Portrait Of Sir Richard Arkwright

by Mather Brown

1790
oil on canvas
128 x 102.6 cm (50.4 x 40.4 in)

New Britain Museum of American Art

New Britain, CT

Brown, Mathernotes
This portrait depicts the British textile manufacturer and inventor Sir Richard Arkwright (1732-1792). Though he began his career as a Lancashire barber and wigmaker, Arkwright was knighted in 1786 and, at his death, was among the wealthiest commoners in the kingdom. Arkwright rose from his humble origins through his development of the spinning jenny...
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