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![]() | Portrait of a Lady by John White Alexander 1900 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Alexander, John White | ![]() 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... |
![]() | Fox and Goose by John James Audubon ca. 1835. Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Audubon, John James | |
![]() | Portrait Of Mr. Daniel Rea by Joseph Badger c. 1757 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Badger, Joseph | ![]() This portrait by Joseph Badger is one of a pair of paintings that unassumingly marks a turning point in American painting, one not particularly beneficial to the artist. Painted when Badger was forty-nine, the portrait serves as a pendant to one of Reds wife painted at the same time by John Singleton Copley. The execution of pendant portraits by... |
![]() | The Dreamer by Cecilia Beaux 1894 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Beaux, Cecilia | |
![]() | Geraldine Lee by George Wesley Bellows 1914 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Bellows, George Wesley | ![]() hair behind. Bellows's awareness of the new theories of color and design in the wake of the Armory Show is evident in the clearly calculated arrangement of echoing, nearly geometric shapes, the subdivision of the canvas surface into rectangles of color, and the palette of closely related purple and mauve hues |
![]() | Red and Gold by Frank Weston Benson 1915. Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Benson, Frank Weston | |
![]() | The Oregon Trail by Albert Bierstadt 1869. Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Bierstadt, Albert | |
![]() | Grand Manan Island by Harrison Bird Brown oil on canvas Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Brown, Harrison Bird | |
![]() | Perfectly Happy by John George Brown 1885 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Brown, John George | ![]() In Perfectly Happy, John George Brown depicted his favorite subject, the city shoeshine boy, clearly recognizable by his blacking box and brushes. |
![]() | Ship: Valparaiso by James E. Buttersworth c. 1855 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Buttersworth, James E. | ![]() version, also Ship: Valparaiso (n.d., private collection), differ only in minor details-the placement of the gulls, the handling of the water and sky, and the treatment of the ship's reflection in the water. |
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