PreviewDescription
ArtistNotes
Kaelin's Brook

by Charles Salis Kaelin

Pastel on paper
15.5 x 11 in.

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Kaelin, Charles Salis 
Kwannon Meditating on Human Life

by John La Farge

1908
oil on canvas
36 X 34" (91.44 x 86.36 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

La Farge, Johnnotes
La Farge's painting of Kwannon can be seen as an offshoot of this statue, now often titled "the Adams Memorial," as well as a reaction to the paintings of Kwannon that he viewed when he was in Japan.
Landscape Near Rome

by Worthington Whittredge

1858
oil on canvas
33 X 54" (83.82 x 137.16 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Whittredge, Worthingtonnotes
The works he painted for the tourist trade fall into two broad classes: Swiss scenes, mainly of Lake Lucerne, and standard picturesque views of the Roman Campagna. The Butler Institute painting, however, partakes of both. Long called Landscape Near Rome, it was executed when he spent the summer around Lake Albano and in the Sabine mountains. A...
Manhattan's Misty Sunset

by Frederick Childe Hassam

1911
oil on canvas
18 X 32" (45.72 x 81.28 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Hassam, Frederick Childenotes
Childe Hassam was the premier Impressionist painter of New York City. From 1890 through World War I he painted its fashionable boulevards, genteel park lanes, festive military parades, new neighborhoods, and occasionally, as in Manhattan's Misty Sunset, the new skyline that was prompting many to call New York the eighth wonder of the world
Moored Boats

by Charles Salis Kaelin

c.1919
Oil on Canvas
20 x 24 in.

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Kaelin, Charles Salis 
Mrs. Arthur Knowles and her Two Sons

by John Singer Sargent

1902
Oil on canvas
182.88 x 151.13 cm (72 X 59 1/2 in)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Sargent, John Singernotes
From: Butler Institute of American Art The subject of the painting is Mrs. Arthur Knowles, formerly Mildred Clare Buchanan, third daughter of Captain James Buchanan of the 70th regiment. Mildred Buchanan married Arthur Lees Knowles of Alvaston Hall, Nantwich, Cheshire, who became High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1894. The two children are John...
My Garden

by Gari Melchers

1900-03
oil on canvas
41 X 40" (104.14 x 101. 60 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Melchers, Garinotes
My Garden was painted at George Hitchcock's home, "Schuylenburg," in Egmond aan den Hoef, one of three Dutch villages clustered along the North Sea shore that share the name of Egmond
Perfectly Happy

by John George Brown

1885
Watercolor on paper
20 x 13" (50.80 X 33.02 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Brown, John Georgenotes
In Perfectly Happy, John George Brown depicted his favorite subject, the city shoeshine boy, clearly recognizable by his blacking box and brushes.
Porthole Portrait of George Washington

by Rembrandt Peale

1795
oil on canvas
36 X 29" (91.44 x 73.66 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Peale, Rembrandt 
Portrait of a Lady

by John White Alexander

1900
Oil on unsized jute canvas
40 X 22" (101.60 X 55.88 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Alexander, John Whitenotes
Portrait of a Lady was painted during Alexander's expatriate period, during which time decorative figure paintings of women dominated his work. Portrait of a Lady is characterized by a simplification and flattening of form through surface patterning, elegant linear contours, asymmetrical composition, and a restricted, low-keyed palette with a single...
You are redirected to this page because your browser does not accept cookies and/or does not support Javascript. Please check your browser settings and try again.