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 | Callers by Walter Ufer ca. 1926 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Ufer, Walter |  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... |
 | A Breton Sunday by Eugene Lawrence Vail ca. 1890 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Vail, Eugene Lawrence | |
 | Along the Riva by Eugene Lawrence Vail oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Vail, Eugene Lawrence | Eugene Vail made several trips to Venice and was fascinated by its rich colors, unique architecture, and exotic citizens. Along the Riva shows two women strolling along the canal, with gondolas in the background. Their elegant clothing and serene expressions evoke the relaxed, luxurious lifestyle of American tourists in Europe. |
 | The Sun God by Elihu Vedder modeled 1882 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Vedder, Elihu | |
 | Lloyd George by Douglas Volk 1919-1920 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Volk, Douglas | |
 | The Boy with Arrow (Leo Volk) by Douglas Volk 1903 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Volk, Douglas | |
 | Alice Barney in White Satin by Hubert Vos 1894 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Vos, Hubert | |
 | California Spring Landscape by Elmer Wachtel ca. 1920 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Wachtel, Elmer | |
 | Mrs. William T. Evans and Her Son by Henry Oliver Walker 1895 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Walker, Henry Oliver | This painting shows the wife and son of William Thomas Evans, a businessman and art collector who donated a large number of paintings to this museum in 1915. Henry Oliver Walker chose to portray Mrs. Evans reading a book to her son, emphasizing that she was raising the child with a classical education in literature. Light bounces off the ornate... |
 | The Blockmaker by Edgar Melville Ward oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Ward, Edgar Melville | This painting of a craftsman in his studio was one of many images of elderly, independent artisans at work that flourished on the American art market in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Blockmakers specialized in making pulley blocks for ships, and several oval-shaped wooden blocks appear on the worktable. As factory work grew in the... |
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