| Preview | Description
  | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 | A Vision of the Past by Eanger Irving Couse 1913 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Couse, Eanger Irving |  In "A Vision of the Past", Couse contrasted the past and present, suggesting that the future held little promise for tribal culture. In doing so, he contributed to a tradition of imagery first popular in the 1830s, that of the vanishing race of "doomed" Native Americans. |
 | Afternoon Fun by Edward Henry Potthast oil on canvas Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Potthast, Edward Henry | A seen in the gem-like oil, Afternoon Fun, Edward Potthast created a personal form of open-air painting, unlike the feeble, phrase-book French Impressionism that characterized the work of many painters associated with the National Academy of Design. |
 | Barnyard by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait 1860 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam | |
 | Bash Bish Falls by John Frederick Kensett c. 1855 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Kensett, John Frederick | |
 | Book, Mug, Candlestick and Pipe by John Frederick Peto c. 1890s Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Peto, John Frederick | Aside from this early inspiration of still-life forms, Peto also appears to have taken from Eakins his sense of painting as a meditative, almost psychological, act; and as with so many of Eakins's later portraits of isolated introspective individuals, Book, Mug, Candlestick and Pipe bears a similar mood of quiet closure |
 | Breakers At Floodtide by Frederick Judd Waugh 1909 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Waugh, Frederick Judd | Breakers at Floodtide is an accomplished, ambitious seascape, painted shortly after his return from Europe. The expressive and realistic effects were the result of Waugh's exhaustive study of light, shadow, and motion of waves breaking on rocky shores. As he wrote, "one should not conflict actualities in nature with artistic representation.... It is... |
 | Cape Ann Woods by Charles Salis Kaelin Oil on Canvas Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Kaelin, Charles Salis | |
 | Cliff-Scene, Grand Manan by Robert Swain Gifford 1865 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Gifford, Robert Swain | dling of paint. After traveling in Europe and North Africa in the early 1870s, Gifford's style became considerably looser, less detailed, and more painterly. After his death, an admirer noted the artist's preference for the "stern, strong, severe phases of nature," adding that his best works impress the viewer "with an air of nobility and power." |
 | Denning's Point by Thomas Doughty c. 1839 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Doughty, Thomas | |
 | Fox and Goose by John James Audubon ca. 1835. Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Audubon, John James |
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