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Kalorama Cottage

by John Ferguson Weir

ca. 1860
Oil on paperboard
5 5/8 x 10 3/8 in. (14.3 x 26.4 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Weir, John Ferguson 
Roses

by John Ferguson Weir

1898
oil on canvas
20 x 30 1/8 in. (50.8 x 76.5 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Weir, John Ferguson 
Houses and Landscape

by Preston Dickinson

ca. 1918
oil on canvas
16 1/8 x 19 5/8 in. (40.8 x 50.0 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Dickinson, Preston 
Industry

by Preston Dickinson

ca. 1923
oil on canvas
29 1/8 x 18 1/4 in. (74.0 x 46.5 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Dickinson, Preston 
Quebec (1)

by Preston Dickinson

oil on canvas
14 1/8 x 20 in. (36.0 x 50.7 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Dickinson, Preston 
The Hills

by Preston Dickinson

ca. 1919
oil on canvas
24 x 27 in. (61.0 x 68.5 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Dickinson, Prestonnotes
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
oil on canvas
14 x 19 3/4 in. (35.6 x 50.3 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Dickinson, Preston 
October

by John Whetten Ehninger

1867
oil on canvas
32 1/4 x 54 1/8 in. (82.0 x 137.6 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Ehninger, John Whettennotes
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
Oil on canvas
32 1/8 x 56 in. (81.6 x 142.3 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Tiffany, Louis Comfort 
Marjorie Staiars

by Elsie Motz Lowdon

1923
Watercolor on ivory
sight 4 1/8 x 5 7/8 in. (10.5 x 14.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Lowdon, Elsie Motznotes
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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