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Spring Landscape, Giverny

by Willard Leroy Metcalf

1887
oil on canvas
19 1/2 X 25 1/4" (49.53 x 65.40 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Metcalf, Willard Leroy 
Still Life with Fruit

by John F. Francis

oil on canvas
23 1/4 X 50" (59.06 x 76.20 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Francis, John F.notes
ves and enlivened by a white napkin. A saturate amber light floods the picture from the left, picking out Francis's typical blue-white highlights and casting strong, dark shadows which further unify the solid geometry of the fruit. The subdued, neutral background plane, set off from a landscape vignette by a vine-hung classic column, was a common...
Still Life with Three Glasses

by William Glackens

mid-1920s
oil on canvas
20 X 29" (50.80 x 73.66 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Glackens, Williamnotes
cally recommended the painting to the organizers of at least one Glackens retrospective after his father's death. In 1964, the Museum of Modern Art in New York selected the painting as the only Glackens still life to be included in their major exhibition of The Eight.
Sylvia

by William McGregor Paxton

1908
oil on canvas
49 X 39 1/2" (124.46 x 100-33 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Paxton, William McGregornotes
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...
The Dreamer

by Cecilia Beaux

1894
Oil on canvas
82.55 cm (32.5 in.), Width: 62.23 cm (24.5 in.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Beaux, Cecilia 
The Marriage Of Washington

by Junius Brutus Stearns

1849
oil on canvas
40 X 55" (101.60 x 139.70 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Stearns, Junius Brutusnotes
The Marriage of Washington depicts thirty-seven elegantly-clad figures surrounding the bridal couple as the ceremony takes Place on January 6, 1759 in St. Peter's Episcopal Church, New Kent County, Virginia. Behind the handsome George and the demur widow Martha Dandridge Custis stand three bridesmaids and Martha's daughter, who looks toward her...
The Oregon Trail

by Albert Bierstadt

1869.
oil on canvas.
31 x 49 in. (78.7 x 124.5 cm).

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Bierstadt, Albert 
The Picnic

by Frederick Rondel

c. 1864-66
oil on canvas
19'/2 X 34" (49.53 x 86.36 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Rondel, Frederick 
The Striker Sisters

by Ralph Earl

1787
oil on canvas
37 X 27" (93.98 X 68.58 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Earl, Ralphnotes
The Striker Sisters is one of about twenty known works painted while Earl was in debtor's prison. From September, 1786, until his release on January 29, 1788, he resided in New York's City Hall jail. What might have been a nightmarish episode was first alleviated and later ended by the passage of An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, April 13,...
View Near Springfield, Massachusetts

by Alvan Fisher

1819
oil on canvas
32 X 44" (81.28 x 111. 76 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Fisher, Alvannotes
st houses, rolling hills and cultivated fields, View Near Springfield, Massachusetts could well have been conceived as a companion piece for the Brooklyn Museum canvas. Certainly, both project an image of an idyllic land, an arcadia, that expresses the ideals of Jeffersonian America and speaks eloquently of the promise of the young Republic.
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