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Galveston, Texas

by George Elbert Burr

1890
Pencil on paper
sheet: 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (20.9 x 13.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Burr, George Elbert 
Gateway, Tangier

by Henry Ossawa Tanner

ca. 1910
oil on plywood
22 1/2 x 19 in. (57.2 x 48.3 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Tanner, Henry Ossawanotes
architecture. It is unclear whether Tanner painted this image in his Paris studio or on-site, but it may have been a study for a larger work, Entrance to the Casbah, which has a similar composition and was completed a couple of years later.
Gathering Mists

by Charles Warren Eaton

1905
oil on canvas
36 x 45 in. (91.4 x 114.2 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Eaton, Charles Warren 
General Georges Leman, Commander of the Fortified Town of Liege

by Edmund Charles Tarbell

1919-1920
oil on canvas
36 1/8 x 29 1/8 in. (91.8 x 74.0 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Tarbell, Edmund Charles 
General View Of The Acropolis At Sunset

by Henry Bacon

watercolor
sight 12 1/2 x 19 1/4 in. (31.8 x 48.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Bacon, Henry 
Gentleman Of Squire Williams House

by Erastus Salisbury Field

ca. 1829
oil on canvas
32 x 24 1/4 in. (81.3 x 61.6 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Field, Erastus Salisbury 
Gentleman Of The Frothingham Family

by Moses B. Russell

ca. 1835
watercolor on ivory
sight 2 1/8 x 1 3/4 in. (5.4 x 4.4 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Russell, Moses B.notes
The Frothingham family were from Haverhill, situated along the Merrimack River in Essex County, Massachusetts. Local cemeteries bear witness to the passing of several generations of Frothingham family members from this area, and from other parts of Massachusetts. In Lady of the Frothingham Family (1983.17.1) Moses Russell took great care to render...
George Bernard Shaw

by Alice Pike Barney

1908
Pastel on paper
29 x 19 1/4 in. (73.7 x 48.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Barney, Alice Pike 
George Cochran Lambdin

by James Reid Lambdin

ca. 1845
watercolor on ivory
4 3/8 x 3 1/2 in. (11.2 x 8.9 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Lambdin, James Reid 
George Fisher

by Raphaelle Peale

ca. 1795
watercolor on ivory
sight 2 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. (6.2 x 5.7 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Peale, Raphaellenotes
George Fisher’s father was a Quaker who founded the borough of Middletown in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1755. Located on the east bank of the Susquehanna River, the settlement lay nine miles below Harrisburg. Fisher passed the bar in 1787 and practiced law there until he retired to Peneford Farm, in Middletown. He died at the age of...
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