| Preview | Description | Artist
  | Notes |
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 | Kwannon Meditating on Human Life by John La Farge 1908 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | La Farge, John |  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. |
 | Ship Starlight by Fitz Hugh Lane c. 1860 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Lane, Fitz Hugh | A painter of ships and marine views for all of his life, Fitz Hugh Lane has created, in Ship Starlight, one of the magical images of his late career |
 | My Garden by Gari Melchers 1900-03 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Melchers, Gari | 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 |
 | Spring Landscape, Giverny by Willard Leroy Metcalf 1887 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Metcalf, Willard Leroy | |
 | Portrait Of Catherine Ten Broeck by Nehemiah Partridge 1719 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Partridge, Nehemiah | |
 | Sylvia by William McGregor Paxton 1908 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Paxton, William McGregor | Not all of Paxton's work was divided between commissioned portraits and domestic interiors with subtle narrative elements. Paxton often chose to paint figural studies of beautiful models, deftly posed within shallow studio settings. Sylvia epitomizes this genre, in which Paxton placed the model's arms and hands into an unusual-yet still graceful... |
 | Portrait Of Mr. Thomas Russell by Charles Willson Peale c. 1784 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Peale, Charles Willson | Thomas Russell (1741-1786) ordered two pairs of portraits of himself and his wife, nee Ann Thomas (b. 1751), during a trip to Philadelphia from Cecil County, Maryland around 1784. At that time, Peale, his patron's exact contemporary, dominated the local portrait market. Because the Russells enjoyed greater financial and material prosperity in the... |
 | Portrait Of Mrs. Thomas Russell by Charles Willson Peale c. 1784 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Peale, Charles Willson | Thomas Russell (1741-1786) ordered two pairs of portraits of himself and his wife, nee Ann Thomas (b. 1751), during a trip to Philadelphia from Cecil County, Maryland around 1784. At that time, Peale, his patron's exact contemporary, dominated the local portrait market. Because the Russells enjoyed greater financial and material prosperity in the... |
 | Porthole Portrait of George Washington by Rembrandt Peale 1795 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Peale, Rembrandt | |
 | 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 |
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