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On Guard

by Thomas Waterman Wood

1874
oil on canvas
15 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

St. Johnsbury, VT

Wood, Thomas Waterman 
Plowing in the Nivernais (Copy after Rosa Bonheur)

by Thomas Waterman Wood

oil on canvas
26 x 51 inches

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

St. Johnsbury, VT

Wood, Thomas Waterman 
The Argument

by Thomas Waterman Wood

1874
oil on canvas
10 5/8 x 13 5/8 inches

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

St. Johnsbury, VT

Wood, Thomas Waterman 
Untitled

by Archibald M. Willard

oil on canvas
10 x 11 3/4 inches

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

St. Johnsbury, VT

Willard, Archibald M. 
Deer, Early Morning On Racquette Lake In The Adirondack

by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait

1872
oil on canvas
21 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

St. Johnsbury, VT

Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam 
Waterfall in the Mountains

by Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon

1882
Oil on canvas
23 ½ x 18 ½ inches

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

St. Johnsbury, VT

Hodgdon, Sylvester Phelps 
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 
Summer - The Passing Shower

by William Hart

1873
oil on canvas
13 x 20 inches

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

St. Johnsbury, VT

Hart, Williamnotes
William Hart's Summer—The Passing Shower offers a charming pendant for his later Autumn Morning. Here, his depiction of a sudden summer rain storm provides an opportunity to explore varying effects of light and shadow falling across the landscape. The rain does not disrupt the peacefulness of the scene, however, as the cattle in the foreground, the...
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.
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