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 | Porthole Portrait of George Washington by Rembrandt Peale 1795 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Peale, Rembrandt | |
 | Spring Landscape, Giverny by Willard Leroy Metcalf 1887 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Metcalf, Willard Leroy | |
 | 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. |
 | 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 |
 | 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... |
 | 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 |
 | Portrait Of Mr. Thomas Russell by Charles Willson Peale c. 1784 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Peale, Charles Willson | Thomas Russell (1741-1786) ordered two pairs of portraits of himself and his wife, nee Ann Thomas (b. 1751), during a trip to Philadelphia from Cecil County, Maryland around 1784. At that time, Peale, his patron's exact contemporary, dominated the local portrait market. Because the Russells enjoyed greater financial and material prosperity in the... |
 | Portrait Of Mrs. Thomas Russell by Charles Willson Peale c. 1784 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Peale, Charles Willson | Thomas Russell (1741-1786) ordered two pairs of portraits of himself and his wife, nee Ann Thomas (b. 1751), during a trip to Philadelphia from Cecil County, Maryland around 1784. At that time, Peale, his patron's exact contemporary, dominated the local portrait market. Because the Russells enjoyed greater financial and material prosperity in the... |
 | Portrait Of Catherine Ten Broeck by Nehemiah Partridge 1719 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Partridge, Nehemiah | |
 | 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... |
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