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 | Perdita by Elsie Motz Lowdon 1915 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Lowdon, Elsie Motz |  This miniature was also exhibited under the titles Repose and White on White. It was exhibited in Dallas at the Texas State Fair in 1915, at the National Academy of Design in New York, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. It was also reproduced in an article in Vanity Fair describing the revival of miniature painting in America. |
 | Uncle William by Elsie Motz Lowdon ca. 1927 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Lowdon, Elsie Motz | William had worked for the Lowdon family for decades, and when this was painted, he was said to be 104 years old. During the 1920s and 1930s, Elsie Lowdon exhibited this popular work in Dallas, Abilene, Houston, Atlanta, and Worcester, Massachusetts. In each case, reviewers noted how real the mans eyes and aged skin appeared, a sentiment echoed by... |
 | 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,... |
 | Ice Pond by Aldro Thompson Hibbard 1927 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Hibbard, Aldro Thompson | |
 | Torre di Schiavi by Thomas Hiram Hotchkiss 1865 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Hotchkiss, Thomas Hiram | The landscape where this herdsman sleeps recalls a distant time and place. Thomas Hotchkiss heightened the mystery of this ancient site by including a mosaic of a winged boy on a dolphin from a recently excavated Roman bath as well as a skull and bones in the shadows at the far left. The Torre di Schiavi, or Tower of Slaves, was a popular subject for... |
 | Lake Scene by Edward L. Custer 1875 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Custer, Edward L. | |
 | The Three Trees by William Langson Lathrop Oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Lathrop, William Langson | |
 | Portrait of a Young Girl Lying in Bed by Alexander Brook ca 1920s-1930s Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Brook, Alexander | |
 | Summer Wind by Alexander Brook ca. 1933 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Brook, Alexander | |
 | Silvery Waters by Franklin De Haven 1916 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | De Haven, Franklin |
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