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Poppies, Isles of Shoals by Childe Hassam

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/103172-poppies-isles-shoals

Childe Hassam was a regular visitor to the Isles of Shoals, nine small, rocky, treeless islands off the New Hampshire coast. His acquaintance with the islands was due to his poet friend Celia Thaxter, whose house on Appledore Island was a summer mecca for writers, painters, illustrators, musicians, and other artistic visitors.
Here, only a passing sailboat hints that we are not in some pristine, wild environment

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Open Window, Collioure, Henri Matisse | National Gallery of Art

https://www.nga.gov/node/856036

Today, Henri Matisse’s Open Window, Collioure may appear gentle and lyrical, but originally its thick brushstrokes and intense colors were seen as violent. A small but explosive work, this icon of early modernism is celebrated as one of the most important paintings of the fauve school, a group of artists who focused on freeing color and texture from strict representations of natural appearance. Open Window, Collioure represents the beginning of this new approach in Matisse’s art.
d’Automne, where one critic dismissed him—and some of his peers—as fauves, or “wild

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Sunrise in the Catskills by Thomas Cole

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/71025-sunrise-catskills

In the spring of 1826, Thomas Cole met Robert Gilmor Jr., a highly knowledgeable and sophisticated Baltimore collector, who soon commissioned a view of Catskill Mountain House, a popular hotel overlooking the Hudson River Valley. After a summer spent sketching and painting in the area and corresponding with his patron concerning the selection of a new subject, Cole completed Sunrise in the Catskills in early December and had it delivered to Baltimore on Christmas Day.
This is not a tamed and cultivated portion of the American landscape but a remote, wild

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