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Crawford Notch, a deep valley in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, gained notoriety in 1826 when nine lives were lost in a catastrophic avalanche nearby. Cole’s painting depicts the site of an earlier landslide whose destruction prompted the victims—Mr.
Sturges, Fairfield, Connecticut; LeRoy Ireland, Philadelphia, probably early 1930s

Impressionist, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City; Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

In 1909, Hamilton Easter Field, a Brooklyn painter and critic, asked Picasso to create a group of eleven paintings as a decoration for his library. Picasso accepted but, although he worked on the commission intermittently over the next several years, he never completed all eleven of the panels.
94, repro., as Standing Figure. 1945 The Callery Collection: Picasso-Léger, Philadelphia

The Longshoremen’s Noon represents a casual gathering of longshoremen—men who labor „along shore“—on a busy Hudson River wharf. It is one of John George Brown’s most celebrated scenes of urban life.
American Artists at the Universal Exposition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Filippino Lippi was the son of the painter Fra Filippo Lippi, who was undoubtedly the boy’s first master. After his father died in 1469, he became a pupil of Botticelli, who had a profound influence on his style.
Although the two authors erroneously report its location as the Johnson Collection in Philadelphia

Pieter de Hooch worked in the small and relatively quiet city of Delft from 1652 to about 1660. Like other Delft artists, most notably Carel Fabritius and Johannes Vermeer, De Hooch painted everyday scenes that are remarkable for their clarity of perspective and harmony of light.
Philadelphia Museum of Art; Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz

Woman Holding a Balance is a superb example of Johannes Vermeer’s exquisite sense of stability and rhythm. A woman dressed in a blue jacket with fur trim stands serenely at a table in a corner of a room.
Chicago, 1933, no. 80. 1984 Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, Philadelphia

Painted in August 1907, Forty-two Kids depicts a band of nude and partially clothed boys engaged in a variety of antics—swimming, diving, sunbathing, smoking, and possibly urinating—on and near a dilapidated wharf jutting out over New York City’s East River. A sharp observer of urban life, George Bellows has sketched his streetwise subjects with characteristic vigor and economy of means, and he has carefully rendered their varied ethnic backgrounds.
1908, no. 167. 103rd Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Known for playfully sensuous terracotta nymphs and satyrs, Clodion also portrayed more serious subjects from Classical myth and history. An ancient draped figure at the Uffizi in Florence, then known as a vestal, inspired him during a stay in Italy to make several statuettes of a priestess of the Roman hearth goddess Vesta, pouring out oil to feed the sacred fire.
Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000: 250-251, under no. 127. 2005 Baillio

In One Year the Milkweed , one of several so-called color veil paintings Gorky made in 1944, films of paint have been washed unevenly across the canvas, and evocative but indistinct forms have been brushed in. Overall green and brown hues suggest a landscape, but there are no identifiable landscape forms and no spatial recession.
York; Phoenix Art Museum, 2005, pl. 85. 2009 Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, Philadelphia