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Kalorama Cottage by John Ferguson Weir ca. 1860 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Weir, John Ferguson | ||
Roses by John Ferguson Weir 1898 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Weir, John Ferguson | ||
Houses and Landscape by Preston Dickinson ca. 1918 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Dickinson, Preston | ||
Industry by Preston Dickinson ca. 1923 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Dickinson, Preston | ||
Quebec (1) by Preston Dickinson oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Dickinson, Preston | ||
The Hills by Preston Dickinson ca. 1919 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Dickinson, Preston | Preston Dickinson painted The Hills a few years after he returned to New York from France. He admired the work of the French modernist painters, especially Paul Cezanne, who transformed his subjects into simple shapes and planes of color. Dickinson composed this landscape from triangles and curves, and even the clouds reflect the shapes of the hills... | |
Untitled Landscape by Preston Dickinson ca. 1918 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Dickinson, Preston | ||
October by John Whetten Ehninger 1867 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Ehninger, John Whetten | John Whetten Ehninger captured the clear atmosphere and brilliant colors of the harvest season. Golden light reflects off of the trees and fields, suffusing the soft clouds above with a comforting glow. A scene like this, evoking community, peace, and plenty, was especially powerful after the Civil War. Ehningers image recalls a golden day when the... | |
Market Day Outside the Walls of Tangiers, Morocco by Louis Comfort Tiffany 1873 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Tiffany, Louis Comfort | ||
Marjorie Staiars by Elsie Motz Lowdon 1923 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Lowdon, Elsie Motz | Marjorie Staiars married John Harrah Wood of Villanova, Pennsylvania, in 1933. This miniature was painted ten years earlier, when Staiars was clearly in her teens. |
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