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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. | |
Watching the Cows by Theodore Robinson 1892 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Robinson, Theodore | On November 29, 1892, he wrote in his diary, presumably referring to Watching the Cows: "Call from Monet & family after breakfast ... he liked the 'cows and Baby[sic]." Several weeks later, following his return to New York, he mentioned the painting again: "The 'Mill' was done in a good spirit of endeavor and ... also the 'Baby and Cows' but how... | |
The Picnic by Frederick Rondel c. 1864-66 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Rondel, Frederick | ||
Roadside Meeting by Albert Pinkham Ryder oil on canvas Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Ryder, Albert Pinkham | Roadside Meeting appears to have been adapted from a scene in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Monastery, written in 1820, and set in Scotland at the close of the sixteenth- century religious wars with England | |
Mrs. Arthur Knowles and her Two Sons by John Singer Sargent 1902 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Sargent, John Singer |
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... | |
The Marriage Of Washington by Junius Brutus Stearns 1849 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Stearns, Junius Brutus | 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... | |
Barnyard by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait 1860 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam | ||
In Flanders Field-where Soldiers Sleep And Poppies Grow by Robert Vonnoh 1890 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Vonnoh, Robert | ||
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... | |
Saint Nicholas by Robert W. Weir 1838 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Weir, Robert W. |
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