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The Domes of the Yosemite

by Albert Bierstadt

1867.
oil on canvas.
116 x 180 in. (294.6 x 457.2 cm).

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

St. Johnsbury, VT

Bierstadt, Albert 
Raspberries

by William Mason Brown

1873
oil on canvas
9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm)

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

St. Johnsbury, VT

Brown, William Mason 
Red Riding Hood

by Seymour Joseph Guy

around 1866
oil on canvas
8 x 12 in. (20.3 x 30.5 cm)

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

St. Johnsbury, VT

Guy, Seymour Josephnotes
Description: Taken from the popular children's story the scene depicts a young girl dressed in a red hooded cape, her body turned in profile to the right as she points out the location of her grandmother's house to a wolf standing in front of her.
Up For Repairs

by Seymour Joseph Guy

1875
oil on canvas
16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

St. Johnsbury, VT

Guy, Seymour Josephnotes
Description: Interior scene depicting a young boy trying to sew a rip in his pants, without being discovered, but as he looks to the left, an adult is about to approach.
Graziella

by George Henry Hall

1873
oil on canvas
33 x 25 inches

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

St. Johnsbury, VT

Hall, George Henry 
Landscape with Cattle

by James McDougal Hart

1872
oil on canvas
20 1/4 x 34 1/2 inches

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

St. Johnsbury, VT

Hart, James McDougalnotes
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.
Marine and Cattle

by James McDougal Hart

1884
oil on canvas
19 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

St. Johnsbury, VT

Hart, James McDougalnotes
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.
Under the Elms

by James McDougal Hart

1872
oil on canvas
44 x 33 inches

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

St. Johnsbury, VT

Hart, James McDougalnotes
Under the Elms is characteristic of Hart's work after the Civil War. Where he favored larger-scale depictions of unexplored wilderness in his earlier work, his later paintings are often more tranquil and refined.
An Autumn Day

by William Hart

1865
oil on canvas
18 x 31 1/2 inches

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

St. Johnsbury, VT

Hart, Williamnotes
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...
Autumn Morning

by William Hart

1876
oil on canvas
12 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

St. Johnsbury, VT

Hart, William 
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