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Afternoon Fun

by Edward Henry Potthast

oil on canvas
24 X 30" (60.96 x 76.20 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Potthast, Edward Henrynotes
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
oil on canvas
16 X 26" (40.64 x 66.04 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Robinson, Theodorenotes
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
oil on canvas
19'/2 X 34" (49.53 x 86.36 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Rondel, Frederick 
Roadside Meeting

by Albert Pinkham Ryder

oil on canvas
15 X 12" (38. 10 x 30.48 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Ryder, Albert Pinkhamnotes
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
Oil on canvas
182.88 x 151.13 cm (72 X 59 1/2 in)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Sargent, John Singernotes
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
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...
Barnyard

by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait

1860
oil on canvas
16 X 26" (40.64 x 66.04 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam 
In Flanders Field-where Soldiers Sleep And Poppies Grow

by Robert Vonnoh

1890
oil on canvas
58 x 104" (147.32 x 264.16 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Vonnoh, Robert 
Breakers At Floodtide

by Frederick Judd Waugh

1909
oil on canvas
35 X 40" (88.90 x 101.60 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Waugh, Frederick Juddnotes
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
Oil on wood panel
30 x 25" (76.20 x 63.50 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Weir, Robert W. 
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