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Spring Dance

by Arthur Frank Mathews

ca. 1917
Oil on canvas
51 7/8 x 47 5/8 in. (131.7 x 121.0 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Mathews, Arthur Franknotes
Arthur Mathews led a group of progressive Californians who believed that fine art and design served the public good. After the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, he and his wife, Lucia, also a designer, led the effort to rebuild the city's fine public spaces. The pastoral scene in Spring Dance resembles civic-minded murals created for museums,...
St. Isidor, Rome

by James Carroll Beckwith

1911
oil on wood
9 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (24.1 x 13.3 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Beckwith, James Carroll 
St. Ives, Priez pour Nous

by William Sergeant Kendall

1895
wood engraving on paper
4 7/8 x 5 1/4 in. (12.3 x 13.3 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Kendall, William Sergeant 
Standing Artist

by John Frederick Kensett

ca. 1845-1847
pencil and watercolor on paper
11 1/4 x 8 5/8 in. (28.7 x 21.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Kensett, John Frederick 
Statue of Oya Jizo

by John La Farge

1890
photomechanical wood engraving on paper
4 5/8 x 3 7/8 in. (11.7 x 10.0 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

La Farge, John 
Stepping in the Fountain

by William DeLeftwich Dodge

ca. 1916
oil on canvas
32 x 19 in. (81.3 x 48.2 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Dodge, William DeLeftwich 
Stevenson Memorial

by Abbott Handerson Thayer

1903
oil on canvas
81 5/8 x 60 1/8 in. (207.2 x 152.6 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Thayer, Abbott Handersonnotes
Apart from the title, our only clue to the subject of this work is the inscription "VAEA," the name of the mountain in Samoa where Robert Louis Stevenson is buried. Stevenson's poetic tales of men at war with themselves had dazzled Abbott Handerson Thayer, whose own life was marked by exaltation and despair. And, like the Scotsman's most memorable...
Still Life with Fan and Roses

by Thomas Hovenden

1874
oil on canvas
9 3/8 x 11 1/8 in. (23.9 x 28.2 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Hovenden, Thomas 
Storm King on the Hudson

by Samuel Colman

1866
oil on canvas
32 1/8 x 59 7/8 in. (81.6 x 152.0 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Colman, Samuel 
Street in Tangier

by Henry Ossawa Tanner

ca. 1910
oil on fiberboard
13 5/8 x 10 1/2 in. (34.5 x 26.7 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Tanner, Henry Ossawanotes
Henry Ossawa Tanner might have created this scene with a passage from the Gospel of Luke in mind. In the background, Mary and Joseph approach the inn at Bethlehem, represented by the shadowed entrance on the left (Mosby, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1991). Tanner did not visit Tangier until 1912, which suggests that he probably painted this scene in his...
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