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  | Artist | Notes |
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 | On Guard by Thomas Waterman Wood 1874 St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Wood, Thomas Waterman | |
 | Marine and Cattle by James McDougal Hart 1884 St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Hart, James McDougal |  This composition by James M. Hart illustrates how the artist's pastoral art developed during his later career. The paintings soft, tonal brushwork and expansive space almost diametrically oppose the crisp specificity of his early work. |
 | Landscape with Cattle by James McDougal Hart 1872 St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Hart, James McDougal | This quiet idyll is typical of the post-Civil War paintings of James Hart. A herd of cattle, trailing into the distance at the left, leads the viewer's eye from the foreground back to the rural village in the distance in a lyric style and nostalgic sensibility that evoke the approaches of the French Barbizon painters of mid-century. |
 | Graziella by George Henry Hall 1873 St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Hall, George Henry | |
 | Deer, Early Morning On Racquette Lake In The Adirondack by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait 1872 St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam | |
 | Autumn Morning by William Hart 1876 St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Hart, William | |
 | An Autumn Day by William Hart 1865 St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Hart, William | The earliest of three paintings by William Hart in the Athenaeum's collection, An Autumn Day appears to portray Whiteface Mountain in New York's Adirondack Mountains. The peaceful scene depicts the pristine American landscape with deer wading quietly in the foreground river. Whereas many of William Hart's landscapes represent the impact of man on the... |
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