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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...
Fox and Goose

by John James Audubon

ca. 1835.
oil on canvas.
21 x 33 in. (53.3 x 83.8 cm).

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Audubon, John James 
Portrait Of Mr. Daniel Rea

by Joseph Badger

c. 1757
oil on canvas
49 X 59" (124.46 x 99.06 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Badger, Josephnotes
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
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 
Geraldine Lee

by George Wesley Bellows

1914
Oil on panel
38 X 30" (96.52 x 76.20 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Bellows, George Wesleynotes
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.
oil on canvas.
51 X 59" (78.74 x 99.06 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Benson, Frank Weston 
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 
Grand Manan Island

by Harrison Bird Brown

oil on canvas
13 X 23" (33.02 x 58.42 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Brown, Harrison Bird 
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.
Ship: Valparaiso

by James E. Buttersworth

c. 1855
oil on canvas
24 X 36" (60.96 x 91.44 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Buttersworth, James E.notes
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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