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Quebec from the Harbor,

Still Life with Roses and Fruit,

Along with other painters of urban scenes, William Glackens embraced a brushy and impromptu style. Following his 1895 trip to Europe, he shifted to lighter subjects and a brighter palette, as in this charming arrangement of flowers and fruit. The objects on the table are of less interest to the artist than the colors and […]

The Mount,

Cervino,

The expatriate American artist John Singer Sargent traveled to the Alps almost every year between 1900 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Cervino was likely painted on one of these annual excursions to the mountainous region along the borders of Italy and Switzerland. He painted there in both oil and watercolor, the […]

Mother and Child,

Considered one of the greatest painters of mothers and their children, Mary Cassatt often used the soft, delicate medium of pastel to render her depictions of domestic interiors and family life. She is best known for her ability to capture the intimacies of familial relationships, particularly among women. Deemed radical for her independent lifestyle and […]

Angela,

Lilla Cabot Perry trained in Boston among leading American Impressionists and later studied in France, where she met Claude Monet in 1889. She spent ten of the next twenty summers in Monet’s company and became one of his leading proponents in the United States. Perry painted this portrait of one of her favorite […]

Snow Storm,

John La Farge’s thick application of paint and loose brushstrokes suggest an atmosphere suffused with the chill of winter. Although nothing overtly marks this as a painting of the Civil War, there are stark allusions to it, as in the lone, weather-beaten tree with one stumped limb. La Farge also perhaps offers a […]

Half-Tide, Annisquam River,

Cecilia Beaux was known primarily as a figure and portrait painter, and her brilliant psychologically revealing depictions of upper-class subjects earned her international recognition as the leading female American painter of the 1900s. This rare landscape—among fewer than a dozen she produced in her nearly forty-five-year career—depicts a lovely view from Beaux’s summer […]

The Blue Mandarin Coat (The Blue Kimono),

Among the most sought-after portraitists in New England, Joseph DeCamp concentrated on formal portraits of men and decorative images of women set in tasteful interiors. The Blue Mandarin Coat is a decorative piece, yet the model possesses a regal bearing typical of DeCamp’s male subjects. “Reddy” Pearson, an Irishwoman who served as DeCamp’s […]

Picking Wildflowers,

Although little known today, Rhoda Holmes Nicholls was an active and successful artist in her time. Her use of transparent washes and quick, Impressionistic brushstrokes reveals the influence of Winslow Homer and James McNeill Whistler. Common subjects in late nineteenth century American art, women and flowers were typically presented together as reminders of the fleeting […]