During the 1860s and 1870s Eastman Johnson was one of America’s leading specialists in genre paintings. He spent the early years of his career painting portraits, primarily in Boston and Washington, but in 1849 decided to enroll in the prestigious art academy at Düsseldorf, Germany.
toward a distant horizon, he created an intimate environment of the pond and its banks
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New York (privately printed), 1922. 1937 „Henry Goldman, 79, Banker, Dies Here.“
On the right, small trees line the banks of a pool of water.
Visual Description A stream winds through steep, rocky banks that lead back to a
The Gallery opened in 1941 with only about 30 sculptures. Yet the names of three great Renaissance artists appeared among them: Mino da Fiesole, Desiderio da Settignano, and Verrocchio. These were the seeds of what grew to become one of the finest collections of Italian Renaissance sculpture in the United States.
Kate Seney Simpson, the daughter of a wealthy banker from New York, offered her collection
In 1911 she married the investment banker Edward Laurence White of Beverly Farms,
In the art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Virtues were often personified by human figures carrying identifying attributes. Charity typically holds one or more children.
Faith and Charity stand on bases treated as little banks of clouds, as if they were
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on canvas, Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp, 2004.166.4 Alfred Sisley, The Banks
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To make it, Cropsey carefully observed the trees on the banks of the Hudson River
In 1883 Monet moved his household, his two sons along with Alice Hoschedé and her children, to the rural community of Giverny, where he leased a house that he was able to purchase seven years later. In early 1893, he acquired a swampy area across the railroad tracks abutting his property and petitioned the village council for permission to divert a small stream into it.
The spring and emerald-green grasses growing along the banks fill the space around
