Exploring Themes in American Art: The Figure |
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| 1. | Gansevoort Limner (Possibly Pieter Vanderlyn), Susanna Truax, 1730 oil on bed ticking, .959 x .838 m (37 3/4 x 32 7/8 in.) |
| 2. | Gilbert Stuart, The Skater (Portrait of William Grant), 1782 oil on canvas, 2.455 x 1.474 m (96 1/4 x 58 in.) |
| 3. | Charles Willson Peale, Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming, 1788 oil on canvas, 1.060 x 1.525 m (42 x 60 in.) |
| 4. | John Singleton Copley, The Red Cross Knight, 1793 oil on canvas, 2.135 x 2.730 m (84 x 107 1/2 in.) |
| 5. | Francis William Edmonds, The Bashful Cousin, c. 1841-1842 oil on canvas, .632 x .760 m (24 7/8 x 29 15/16 in.) |
| 6. | Thomas Sully, Lady with a Harp: Eliza Ridgely, 1818 oil on canvas, 2.145 x 1.425 m (84 7/16 x 56 1/8 in.) |
| 7. | George Catlin, Three Celebrated Ball Players--Choctaw, Sioux, and Ojibbeway, 1861 oil on card mounted on paperboard, .451 x .609 m (17 3/4 x 24 in.) |
| 8. | After Winslow Homer, The Army of the Potomac--A Sharp-Shooter on Picket Duty, published 1862 wood engraving on newsprint, sheet: .287 x .419 m (11 1/4 x 16 1/2 in.) |
| 9. | Thomas Eakins, The Biglin Brothers Racing, 1872 oil on canvas, .612 x .916 m (24 1/8 x 36 1/16 in.) |
| 10. | John Singer Sargent, Nonchaloir (Repose), 1911 oil on canvas, .638 x .762 m (25 1/8 x 30 in.) |
| 11. | Frank Weston Benson, Margaret ("Gretchen") Strong, c. 1909 oil on canvas, .768 x .642 m (30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in.) |
| 12. | Paul Manship, Diana and a Hound, 1925 bronze, 1.647 x 1.099 x .492 m (64 7/8 x 43 1/4 x 19 3/8 in.) |
| 13. | Lyonel Feininger, The Bicycle Race, 1912 oil on canvas, .803 x 1.003 m (31 5/8 x 39 1/2 in.) |
| 14. | George Benjamin Luks, The Miner, 1925 oil on canvas, 1.531 x 1.280 m (60 1/4 x 50 3/8 in.) |
| 15. | Thomas Hart Benton, Island Hay, 1945 lithograph on wove paper, sheet: .311 x .411 m (12 1/4 x 16 3/16 in.) |
| 16. | Willem de Kooning, Study for "Woman Number One," 1952 pastel, crayon, and graphite, approximate: .229 x .285 m (9 x 11 1/4 in.) |
| 17. | George Segal, The Dancers, 1971 and 1982 bronze with white patina, 1.790 x 2.692 x 1.803 m (70 1/2 x 106 x 71 in.) |
| 18. | Barkley Leonnard Hendricks, Sir Charles, Alias Willy Harris, 1972 oil on canvas, 2.136 x 1.829 m (84 1/8 x 72 in.) |
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