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Portrait Of Catherine Ten Broeck by Nehemiah Partridge 1719 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Partridge, Nehemiah | ||
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... | |
Porthole Portrait of George Washington by Rembrandt Peale 1795 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Peale, Rembrandt | ||
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. | |
My Garden by Gari Melchers 1900-03 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Melchers, Gari | My Garden was painted at George Hitchcock's home, "Schuylenburg," in Egmond aan den Hoef, one of three Dutch villages clustered along the North Sea shore that share the name of Egmond | |
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... | |
Moored Boats by Charles Salis Kaelin c.1919 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Kaelin, Charles Salis | ||
Manhattan's Misty Sunset by Frederick Childe Hassam 1911 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Hassam, Frederick Childe | Childe Hassam was the premier Impressionist painter of New York City. From 1890 through World War I he painted its fashionable boulevards, genteel park lanes, festive military parades, new neighborhoods, and occasionally, as in Manhattan's Misty Sunset, the new skyline that was prompting many to call New York the eighth wonder of the world | |
Landscape Near Rome by Worthington Whittredge 1858 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Whittredge, Worthington | The works he painted for the tourist trade fall into two broad classes: Swiss scenes, mainly of Lake Lucerne, and standard picturesque views of the Roman Campagna. The Butler Institute painting, however, partakes of both. Long called Landscape Near Rome, it was executed when he spent the summer around Lake Albano and in the Sabine mountains. A... | |
Kwannon Meditating on Human Life by John La Farge 1908 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | La Farge, John | La Farge's painting of Kwannon can be seen as an offshoot of this statue, now often titled "the Adams Memorial," as well as a reaction to the paintings of Kwannon that he viewed when he was in Japan. |
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