Mathias Schmid (Austrian, 1835-1923)

In a Föhn Storm

Date: 1886
Medium: Oil on cardboard
Object Dimensions: 21 1/4 x 12 5/8 in. (53.98 x 32.07 cm)
Credit Line: Founding Collection, Gift of Charles and Emma Frye, 1952.149
Photo Credit: Jueqian Fang
Verbal Description: The focus of this painting is a young girl, facing away from the viewer on a brown and gray jagged peak, wind sweeping her dress and hair. The ridgeline starts at the bottom right hand of the composition, moves across in a zigzag pattern, and ends midway up the left side of the painting. A baren tree trunk with just a few wisps of green on short branches is on the nearest peak, on the right side of the composition. Moving left, the next and highest peak is where the girl is perched precariously. She has white skin and appears to be bare-footed. She wears a dark-colored, voluminous dress with what looks to be a vermillion-colored petticoat that peaks out at the base of the dress. Underneath her denim apron dress, she wears a three-quarter length white shirt. The wind pushes her garments upward, almost to her shoulders and she uses her left arm to hold down the skirt. Her golden hair is in Heidi braids, wrapped up and around her head, except for a long strand blowing in the wind. A single green leaf flies up to the left corner of the composition. The sky is mostly cloudy, with splotches of blue and pink poking through. A warm golden glow is just barely seen from behind the mountain.

Unknown (Nationality unknown)

Bearded Smoker

Sergei Bongart (American, born Ukraine, 1918-1985)

Larry Burnham (American)

Date: ca. 1960-71
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object Dimensions: 31 3/4 x 28 in. (80.65 x 71.12 cm)
Credit Line: Museum Purchase, 1971.008
Photo Credit: Jueqian Fang
Verbal Description: This painting is a portrait of three bird-like forms—piñatas—hung in an upside-down, triangular formation. The creatures’ body shapes resemble a peacock with thick, curved necks, pointed beaks, a slight comb at the top of their head, and long, cascading tailfeathers. Their legs are thin, about as along as their bodies, and disjointed like a flamingo. Each bird is a different solid color, starting at the top right and moving clockwise: magenta, grape, and canary yellow. The piñatas are hung by a thin, straight brown line, connecting the top of each bird back to the top edge of the canvas.

Unknown (Nationality unknown)

Date: n.d.
Medium: Painted porcelain in a reproduction frame
Object Dimensions: 6 3/8 x 4 1/2 in. (16.19 x 11.43 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Robert Simpson, 1988.002
Photo Credit: Jueqian Fang
Verbal Description: This oval painting is small, and the ornately carved, gold frame nearly doubles its size. The painting is a portrait of a woman with porcelain-colored skin and light hair that’s mostly covered by her blue head covering and robe. Her hands, also covered entirely by the blue robe, clasp together to form a triangle shape at the center of the composition. One small fingertip on her right hand peaks out. Her head is turned to the right, nearly in profile, and she looks down, her eyes barely open and brow unfurred. Her pink lips are slightly downturned. She also wears a gold scarf, and the background of the painting is gold.

John Singleton Copley (American, 1738-1815)

Arthur Bowen Davies (American, 1862-1928)

Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975)

Date: 1922
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object Dimensions: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60.96 cm)
Credit Line: Museum Purchase, 1963.003
Photo Credit: Jueqian Fang
Copyright: Copyright held by Thomas Hart Benton Testamentary Trusts, represented by Artist Rights Society
Verbal Description: This is a somewhat abstracted landscape painting of a small town with rolling hills in the distance. There are not many details; shapes are filled with large swaths of smooth color. The perspective is slightly above the town, perhaps painted from the hillside in the foreground that takes up the right corner of the composition. Protruding from what might be a curved road along this hillside is a telephone pole, but without any wires. Below this road about a dozen house shapes of varying shades of brown and gray, nestled between golden mounds and deep green foliage. At the center of this cluster is what might be church—a white building with a tall frontispiece coming to a point, like a steeple. It looks to be a pleasant day with blue skies and warm light coming from the left and highlighting the town.

Beverly King (American, 1943-2017)

Leon Schulman Gaspard (American, born Russia, 1882-1964)

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