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Portrait Of Mr. Daniel Rea

by Joseph Badger

c. 1757
oil on canvas
49 X 59" (124.46 x 99.06 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Badger, Josephnotes
This portrait by Joseph Badger is one of a pair of paintings that unassumingly marks a turning point in American painting, one not particularly beneficial to the artist. Painted when Badger was forty-nine, the portrait serves as a pendant to one of Reds wife painted at the same time by John Singleton Copley. The execution of pendant portraits by...
From Sail To Steam

by James Hamilton

c. 1870s
oil on canvas
30 X 50" (76.20 x 127.00 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Hamilton, James 
The Striker Sisters

by Ralph Earl

1787
oil on canvas
37 X 27" (93.98 X 68.58 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Earl, Ralphnotes
The Striker Sisters is one of about twenty known works painted while Earl was in debtor's prison. From September, 1786, until his release on January 29, 1788, he resided in New York's City Hall jail. What might have been a nightmarish episode was first alleviated and later ended by the passage of An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, April 13,...
Moored Boats

by Charles Salis Kaelin

c.1919
Oil on Canvas
20 x 24 in.

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Kaelin, Charles Salis 
Cape Ann Woods

by Charles Salis Kaelin

Oil on Canvas
25 x 30 in.

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Kaelin, Charles Salis 
Granite Shore

by Charles Salis Kaelin

oil on canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61.0 cm)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Kaelin, Charles Salis 
Granite Shore (Rocky Coast)

by Charles Salis Kaelin

Pastel on paper
14 x 16 in.

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Kaelin, Charles Salis 
Kaelin's Brook

by Charles Salis Kaelin

Pastel on paper
15.5 x 11 in.

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Kaelin, Charles Salis 
Hollyhocks

by Philip Leslie Hale

ca. 1922-1923
oil on canvas
56 X 24" (91.44 x 60.96 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Hale, Philip Leslienotes
Hollyhocks is a particularly captivating example of Philip Leslie Hale's decorative Impressionism. Depicting healthy, sun-drenched young women engaged in genteel leisure activities outdoors, Hale, a well-known Boston painter, art critic, and unofficial spokesman for the Boston School, was drawn, as were many of his peers, to this theme and style....
Mrs. Arthur Knowles and her Two Sons

by John Singer Sargent

1902
Oil on canvas
182.88 x 151.13 cm (72 X 59 1/2 in)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Sargent, John Singernotes
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...
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