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Girl In Yellow Scarf

by Charles Webster Hawthorne

1904
oil on canvas
40 X 30" (101.60 x 76.20 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Hawthorne, Charles Websternotes
plified outlines, broad, flat planes of slightly modulated color, and the noble calm that cloaked their humanity. In paintings executed after 1906, Hawthorne revealed a new clarity in ideas of style, but more importantly, he instilled in his subjects a quiet dignity that reaffirms the beauty and glory of human experience.
Afternoon Fun

by Edward Henry Potthast

oil on canvas
24 X 30" (60.96 x 76.20 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Potthast, Edward Henrynotes
A seen in the gem-like oil, Afternoon Fun, Edward Potthast created a personal form of open-air painting, unlike the feeble, phrase-book French Impressionism that characterized the work of many painters associated with the National Academy of Design.
Grand Manan Island

by Harrison Bird Brown

oil on canvas
13 X 23" (33.02 x 58.42 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Brown, Harrison Bird 
The Picnic

by Frederick Rondel

c. 1864-66
oil on canvas
19'/2 X 34" (49.53 x 86.36 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Rondel, Frederick 
Landscape Near Rome

by Worthington Whittredge

1858
oil on canvas
33 X 54" (83.82 x 137.16 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Whittredge, Worthingtonnotes
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...
The Marriage Of Washington

by Junius Brutus Stearns

1849
oil on canvas
40 X 55" (101.60 x 139.70 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Stearns, Junius Brutusnotes
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...
Barnyard

by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait

1860
oil on canvas
16 X 26" (40.64 x 66.04 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam 
Breakers At Floodtide

by Frederick Judd Waugh

1909
oil on canvas
35 X 40" (88.90 x 101.60 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Waugh, Frederick Juddnotes
Breakers at Floodtide is an accomplished, ambitious seascape, painted shortly after his return from Europe. The expressive and realistic effects were the result of Waugh's exhaustive study of light, shadow, and motion of waves breaking on rocky shores. As he wrote, "one should not conflict actualities in nature with artistic representation.... It is...
In Flanders Field-where Soldiers Sleep And Poppies Grow

by Robert Vonnoh

1890
oil on canvas
58 x 104" (147.32 x 264.16 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Vonnoh, Robert 
Saint Nicholas

by Robert W. Weir

1838
Oil on wood panel
30 x 25" (76.20 x 63.50 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Weir, Robert W. 
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