Franz-Xaver Hoch (German, 1869-1916)

Landscape with Church Towers

Franz von Lenbach (German, 1836-1904)

Helmuth, Count von Moltke

Wilhelm Trübner (German, 1851-1917)

Date: 1904
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object Dimensions: 31 x 36 1/4 in. (78.74 x 92.08 cm)
Credit Line: Founding Collection, Gift of Charles and Emma Frye, 1952.173
Photo Credit: Spike Mafford
Verbal Description: Three dark brown tree trunks and a band of verdant shrubbery are positioned in front of a large, white building in this lush landscape painting. A clear, cerulean sky peaks through the coniferous tree canopy. A sunny, lime-colored lawn with a pink flower bed is at the center of the composition. Most of the building is obstructed by the trees, and all that is seen between the middle and far right tree trunks is a tower, five stories high, with two rectangular windows side-by-side on every floor. This painting is representational, but the brushstrokes are textured, and short dashes of paint and flecks of color make up the landscape, giving the painting an overall impressionistic feeling.

Franz von Stuck (German, 1863-1928)

Louis Moeller (American, 1855-1930)

Nikolai Nikanorovich Dubovskoi (Russian, 1859-1918)

Franz von Lenbach (German, 1836-1904)

Pieter van Veen (American, born the Netherlands, 1875-1961)

Date: ca. 1914
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object Dimensions: 15 x 21 3/16 in. (38.1 x 53.82 cm)
Credit Line: Founding Collection, Gift of Charles and Emma Frye, 1952.179
Photo Credit: Jueqian Fang
Verbal Description: This is a painting of a winter day. The clear, pastel blue sky takes up about three-quarters of the composition and a flat landscape occupies the bottom quarter. Two steel-colored, meandering rivers flank either side of a snow-covered path that dissects the ground vertically into two equal halves. Moving from left to right along the horizon line: a golden triangle of long grasses line the wider of the two rivers and a sliver of gold lines the right bank. At the center is the snow-covered path moving back towards the horizon line. A dark shape off in the distance has just enough details to see that it’s a figure. Just beyond this traveling figure is a light gray rhombus, likely the roof of a house. Moving further to the right along the horizon line are three leafless trees, all about the same height, poking above another house. The second river runs next to this structure with the same golden strips along either side. At the right side of this bank, touching the right side of the painting, is another building. It’s closer than the others. There are no windows, it has dark gray walls and a light gray roof.

Ludwig Knaus (German, 1829-1910)

Julius Scheuerer (German, 1859-1913)

Date: 1907
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object Dimensions: 36 1/2 x 24 1/2 in. (92.71 x 62.23 cm)
Credit Line: Founding Collection, Gift of Charles and Emma Frye, 1952.148
Photo Credit: Jueqian Fang
Verbal Description: This is a portrait of a peacock. His bright blue, s-shaped head and turquoise comb is in profile near the top center of the painting. His back is displayed to the viewer. He has tan and brown speckled wings, which are separated by iridescent yellow, green, and orange feathers cascading down his back. His tailfeathers are down and move diagonally, reaching the bottom left corner. The long, wispy gold feathers are patterned with emerald circles and deep blue spots. He’s perched on ground that’s been uplifted by the roots of a gray tree that form the letter V with the peacock’s tail. The background has a stand of verdant trees filling most of the left side of the composition. On the right side is a light blue sky filled with wispy clouds and at the bottom, a neon blue stripe of water.

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