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 | 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... |
 | View Near Springfield, Massachusetts by Alvan Fisher 1819 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Fisher, Alvan | 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. |
 | The Striker Sisters by Ralph Earl 1787 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Earl, Ralph | 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,... |
 | The Picnic by Frederick Rondel c. 1864-66 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Rondel, Frederick | |
 | The Oregon Trail by Albert Bierstadt 1869. Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Bierstadt, Albert | |
 | 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... |
 | The Dreamer by Cecilia Beaux 1894 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Beaux, Cecilia | |
 | Sylvia by William McGregor Paxton 1908 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Paxton, William McGregor | 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... |
 | Still Life with Three Glasses by William Glackens mid-1920s Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Glackens, William | 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. |
 | Still Life with Fruit by John F. Francis oil on canvas Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Francis, John F. | 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... |
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