Village Street
Jonas Lie was an extremely popular, award-winning American artist best known for his technically rigorous paintings of scenery. The calm placidity of his Village Street belies his reputation as a fiery-tempered president of the National Academy of Design… 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
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
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