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California Spring Landscape

by Elmer Wachtel

ca. 1920
watercolor
sight 9 3/4 x 14 1/2 in. (24.8 x 36.8 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Wachtel, Elmer 
Callers

by Walter Ufer

ca. 1926
oil on canvas
50 1/2 x 50 1/2 in. (128.4 x 128.4 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Ufer, Walternotes
This painting captures an everyday, yet deeply poetic moment among New Mexico's Pueblo Indians. Ufer was a German emigre who brought to America an intense sympathy for ordinary people instilled in him by his socialist family. He did not romanticize his sitters, because he understood that the Indian "resents being regarded as a curiosityas a...
Camelback Mountain, Phoenix

by George Elbert Burr

ca. 1926
etching on paper
plate: 7 x 9 7/8 in. (17.8 x 25.2 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Burr, George Elbert 
Canal in Venice, San Trovaso Quarter

by Robert Frederick Blum

ca. 1885
oil on canvas
34 x 23 1/8 in. (86.5 x 58.6 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Blum, Robert Frederick 
Capri from Sorrento

by George Elbert Burr

1898
pen and ink on paper
sheet: 10 7/8 x 13 3/4 in. (27.6 x 35.0 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Burr, George Elbert 
Capsized Fishing Boats, Brittany

by Henry Ossawa Tanner

etching and aquatint on paper
plate: 5 7/8 x 7 3/4 in. (14.8 x 19.8 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Tanner, Henry Ossawa 
Capt. John Gassoway

by Charles Willson Peale

1790
watercolor on ivory
sight 1 1/2 x 1 1/8 in. (3.8 x 2.9 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Peale, Charles Willsonnotes
Captain John Gassoway (1754-1820), also spelled Gassaway, was wounded and taken prisoner at the disastrous Battle of Camden, fought by Revolutionary forces in South Carolina in 1780. Branches of his family occupy a prominent role in the history of South Carolina, and Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Conservation of this miniature was made possible...
Captain John (Ab-ba-ba-pomo)

by Grace Carpenter Hudson

oil on canvas
23 7/8 x 17 3/4 in. (60.5 x 45.0 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Hudson, Grace Carpenter 
Captain Wheeler

by Alice Pike Barney

1892
oil on canvas
23 1/2 x 19 1/8 in. (59.7 x 48.6 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Barney, Alice Pike 
Capture Of H.b.m. Frigate Macedonian By U.s. Frigate United States, October 25, 1812

by Thomas Chambers

1852
oil on canvas
34 7/8 x 50 1/4 in. (88.6 x 127.5 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Chambers, Thomas 
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