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 | 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. |
 | 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. |
 | Under the Elms by James McDougal Hart 1872 St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Hart, James McDougal | 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. |
 | The Domes of the Yosemite by Albert Bierstadt 1867. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Bierstadt, Albert | |
 | 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... |
 | Autumn Morning by William Hart 1876 St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Hart, William | |
 | Summer - The Passing Shower by William Hart 1873 St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Hart, William | 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... |
 | On Guard by Thomas Waterman Wood 1874 St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Wood, Thomas Waterman | |
 | Plowing in the Nivernais (Copy after Rosa Bonheur) by Thomas Waterman Wood oil on canvas St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Wood, Thomas Waterman | |
 | The Argument by Thomas Waterman Wood 1874 St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Wood, Thomas Waterman |
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