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Red and Gold by Frank Weston Benson 1915. Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Benson, Frank Weston | ||
Hudson River with a Distant View of West Point by Seth Eastman 1834 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Eastman, Seth | 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 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Frieseke, Frederick Carl | 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 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Ryder, Albert Pinkham | 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 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Bellows, George Wesley | 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 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Buttersworth, James E. | 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. Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Audubon, John James | ||
A Vision of the Past by Eanger Irving Couse 1913 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Couse, Eanger Irving | 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 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... | |
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. |
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