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 | Hunger under a Bridge by Eugene Higgins 1912 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Higgins, Eugene | |
 | Study for The Black Cloud by Eugene Higgins ca. 1930-1931 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Higgins, Eugene | |
 | The Black Cloud by Eugene Higgins Oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Higgins, Eugene | |
 | Woman with a Trap by Eugene Higgins Oil on canvas mounted on paperboard mounted on fiberboard Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Higgins, Eugene | |
 | 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. |
 | 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,... |
 | Farmyard in the Snow, the Miller Place, Brookhaven, Long Island by James Preston ca. 1920-1930 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Preston, James | |
 | Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich by Ellen Emmet Rand 1906 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Rand, Ellen Emmet |
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