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Spring Dance by Arthur Frank Mathews ca. 1917 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Mathews, Arthur Frank | 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 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Beckwith, James Carroll | ||
St. Ives, Priez pour Nous by William Sergeant Kendall 1895 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Kendall, William Sergeant | ||
Standing Artist by John Frederick Kensett ca. 1845-1847 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Kensett, John Frederick | ||
Statue of Oya Jizo by John La Farge 1890 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | La Farge, John | ||
Stepping in the Fountain by William DeLeftwich Dodge ca. 1916 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Dodge, William DeLeftwich | ||
Stevenson Memorial by Abbott Handerson Thayer 1903 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Thayer, Abbott Handerson | 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 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Hovenden, Thomas | ||
Storm King on the Hudson by Samuel Colman 1866 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Colman, Samuel | ||
Street in Tangier by Henry Ossawa Tanner ca. 1910 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Tanner, Henry Ossawa | 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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