Young Woman With a Hat
Edmund Charles Tarbell studied at the then newly formed School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He later returned as formidable teacher who helped make the school an important fixture in American art education of the… Read More
Woman in a White Dress
Lawton Silas Parker studied at the Chicago Art Institute, the Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, as well as under the tutelage of William Merrit Chase. An original member of the Givernois Colony in… Read More
Flowering Trees
Willard Leroy Metcalf’s renown as a pivotal painter of the New England landscape stemmed from his studies with Georgia Loring Brown in Massachusetts and also in Paris alongside Edmund Tarbell and Frank Benson. He earned a living through… Read More
Washington at Mt. Vernon
Best known as an American Impressionist, Frederick Childe Hassam’s highly successful career was winding to a close by the 1930s. But his work in etching still commanded attention. Three years before his death in 1935, Hassam contributed the… Read More
Lady in Red
George Henry Hall, who trained briefly with Eastman Johnson in New York, executed a large body of work in Seville, Spain, establishing a unique niche as one of the first American painters to work in that country. His… Read More
Mt. Chocorua
Sanford Robinson Gifford, a member of the Hudson River School of landscape painting of the 19th century, is characterized as a Luminist painter. He was most concerned with the effects of atmospheric light in his paintings, which were… Read More
Portrait of a Young Woman
Frank Duveneck was born in Kentucky, the son of German immigrants. After his employment with decorator Wilhelm Lamprecht in Cincinnati, Duveneck went to Munich to study church decoration. He instead became interested in easel painting and enrolled in… Read More
Still Life
William Merritt Chase championed the formation of distinctly realistic American art as well as the teaching of it. Known as an enthusiastic and energetic instructor, Chase taught many future artists such as Edward Hopper, Joseph Stella, Charles Demuth… Read More
Indian Campsite
Indian Camp Site is a preparatory watercolor study for a 1930s 17-scene mural commissioned by National Lumberman’s Bank in Muskegon, Michigan. Now on view at the Lakeshore Museum Center, the mural series chronicles the history of Muskegon, from… Read More
Standing Child
Frank Weston Benson studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, along with Edmund Tarbell. Like Tarbell, He later returned to the school to teach. Under the leadership of Benson and Tarbell, the school… Read More