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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 
Hudson River with a Distant View of West Point

by Seth Eastman

1834
oil on canvas
33 X 50" (83.82 X 127.00 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Eastman, Sethnotes
ilitary academy, and some of the school's academic buildings appear as tiny white shapes at the far right. The river disappears downstream behind them.
Good Morning

by Frederick Carl Frieseke

c. 1912 or 1913
oil on canvas
32 X 26" (81.28 x 66.04 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Frieseke, Frederick Carlnotes
Born in Owosso, Michigan, Frederick Frieseke studied at The Art Institute of Chicago beginning in 1893, before going East to the Art Students League in New York City in 1897, and then to Paris in 1898
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
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
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.
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 
A Vision of the Past

by Eanger Irving Couse

1913
oil on canvas
59 X 59" (149.86 x 149.86 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Couse, Eanger Irvingnotes
In "A Vision of the Past", Couse contrasted the past and present, suggesting that the future held little promise for tribal culture. In doing so, he contributed to a tradition of imagery first popular in the 1830s, that of the vanishing race of "doomed" Native Americans.
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...
Still Life with Three Glasses

by William Glackens

mid-1920s
oil on canvas
20 X 29" (50.80 x 73.66 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Glackens, Williamnotes
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.
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