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  | Artist | Notes |
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 | Bronze Buddha by Henry Golden Dearth oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Dearth, Henry Golden | |
 | Brother And Sister (Mary And Gerald Thayer) by Abbott Handerson Thayer 1889 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Thayer, Abbott Handerson |  This work portrays Abbott Thayer's children one year after their mother's hospitalization for "melancholia," or severe depression. Kate Thayer became physically ill while hospitalized, and Thayer wrote to a friend that her physical deterioration would not be so horrible "were her soul visible" (Anderson, Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1982). Thayer... |
 | Brother-in-law Of Mrs. Alexander Rose by Archibald Robertson ca. 1795 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Robertson, Archibald | Alexander Rose and his wife, the former Margaret Smith, both had their portraits painted in miniature by Pierre Henri, and both are in this collection. Mrs. Rose’s father was a prominent New York Loyalist, Judge William Smith, and Margaret was his thirteenth child. This sitter may be the husband of one of Margaret’s sisters. The miniature was... |
 | Brown Kimono (Portrait of Kathryn Beta la Forque) by Irving R. Wiles 1908 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Wiles, Irving R. | |
 | Buffalo Hunt On The Southwestern Prairies by John Mix Stanley 1845 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Stanley, John Mix | |
 | Buffalo Scene by Emil W. Lenders 1922 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Lenders, Emil W. | |
 | Burning Oil Well At Night, Near Rouseville, Pennsylvania by James Hamilton ca. 1861 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Hamilton, James | Rouseville, Pennsylvania, lay within a few miles of Titusville and Pithole City, two of the most famous boomtowns in Pennsylvania s oil fields. From 1859 until after the Civil War, new gushers brought investors, cardsharps, saloons, and speculators into these rural settlements. As quickly as they grew, however, the towns collapsed, often from the... |
 | Business Neglected by John George Brown etching on parchment Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Brown, John George | |
 | Caernarvon Castle by George Elbert Burr 1899 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Burr, George Elbert | |
 | Cafe at Biskra, Algeria by Frederick Arthur Bridgman 1884 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Bridgman, Frederick Arthur |
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