John Singleton Copley (American, 1738-1815)

Major General August de la Motte

Arthur Bowen Davies (American, 1862-1928)

Hills of the Sierras

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)

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

Grigory Gluckmann (American, born Russia, 1898-1973)

Albert Bierstadt (American, born Germany, 1830-1902)

Heinrich von Zügel (German, 1850-1941)

Date: 1912
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object Dimensions: 21 x 31 3/4 in. (53.34 x 80.65 cm)
Credit Line: Founding Collection, Gift of Charles and Emma Frye, 1952.206
Photo Credit: Jueqian Fang
Verbal Description: Three cows stand side-by-side on a lush and verdant riverbed in this impressionistic-style painting. All cows are about the same size with their heads clustered together. The cow furthest on the right stands nearly in profile, showing their full left side. They’re black and white in color with two large spots: one covers their stomach, the other their head. The center cow is turned to the right, they’re mostly white with umber spots covering their ear, neck, and under their left eye. The cow on the far left faces the viewer head-on, although their left ear is obstructed by the white and umber cow. They are mostly white with a soft pink nose and ears and a cream chest. It’s daytime, and the light is soft and dappled.

Mary Hinkson (American, 1863-1936)

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