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Hemlock Pool

by John Henry Twachtman

ca. 1890-1900
oil on canvas
22 1/4 x 30 1/4 in. (56.5 x 76.7 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Twachtman, John Henrynotes
John Twachtman painted this scene in all different seasons. He drew inspiration from his seventeen acres of land in Greenwich, Connecticut, and his paintings of the property express the emotional and spiritual comfort he found there. This image, likely made in autumn, shows a pond located behind his house at the bottom of a steep incline along the...
Henry Augustus Coit

by John Wood Dodge

1838
watercolor on ivory
sight 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. (7.0 x 5.7 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Dodge, John Woodnotes
Henry Augustus Coit (born 1800) lived in Cuba as a young man, and for over twenty years, invested in the sugar trade along with his partner, Moses Taylor III. Coit was fluent in Spanish and moved easily in Cuban society. Having made a fortune in the sugar trade, he maintained palatial homes in Havana, Dobbs Ferry, and Saratoga Springs, New York,...
Henry M. Stanley

by Alice Pike Barney

ca. 1927
Pastel on paper
20 1/8 x 16 1/8 in. (51.1 x 41.0 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Barney, Alice Pike 
Henry Trescot

by Charles Fraser

1821
watercolor on ivory
sight 3 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. (9.5 x 8.1 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Fraser, Charlesnotes
According to Charles Fraser’s account books, he painted “copy of 2 portraits for Mr. H Trescot,” which may mean that the artist copied an existing oil painting of his patron, or made two versions of this miniature. Here, Henry Trescot appears at his ease among leatherbound books, signs of his learning and financial standing.
Her Leisure Hour

by Irving R. Wiles

ca. 1925
oil on canvas
27 1/4 x 22 1/2 in. (69.2 x 57.1 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Wiles, Irving R.notes
Irving Wiles painted many portraits of society women that emphasized their elaborate costumes and jewelry. One writer for Scribner's Magazine commented that Wiles painted women's ribbons, veils, and laces with "as much character as he puts in the expression of their faces." But in Her Leisure Hour, the girl's unhappy expression is at odds with her...
Herdsmen with Cows

by Edward M. Bannister

1869
oil on canvas
31 1/4 x 51 5/8 in. (79.4 x 131.2 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Bannister, Edward M. 
Hermia and Helena

by Washington Allston

before 1818
oil on canvas
30 3/8 x 25 1/4 in. (77.2 x 64.2 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Allston, Washingtonnotes
Hermia and Helena in England when the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was reviving Shakespeare's plays. A friend of Allston's, Coleridge felt that Shakespeare expressed human sentiment perfectly.
Highlands, N.C.

by Henry Ossawa Tanner

1889
watercolor and pencil on paper
10 7/8 x 15 in. (27.5 x 38.1 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Tanner, Henry Ossawa 
Hillside

by Edward Gay

1908
oil on canvas
33 x 43 in. (83.8 x 109.2 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Gay, Edward 
Hippolyte Dreyfus

by Alice Pike Barney

1907
Pastel
27 1/8 x 21 7/8 in. (68.9 x 55.6 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Barney, Alice Pike 
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