Graham Gallery

est. 1981

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Guy Pène du Bois, Terrace, Paris Café, 1931, pen and black ink on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Mrs. J. L. M. Curry), 2015.19.2694

Terrace, Paris Café

Guy Pène du Bois · 1931 · pen and black ink on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.2694

Guy Pène du Bois, Vanity Fair, brush and black ink with watercolor and scratchwork on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Mrs. J.L.M. Curry), 2015.19.2696

Vanity Fair

Guy Pène du Bois · · brush and black ink with watercolor and scratchwork on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.2696

John La Farge, The Entrance to the Tautira River, Tahiti. Fisherman Spearing a Fish, c. 1895, oil on canvas, Adolph Caspar Miller Fund, 1966.6.1

The Entrance to the Tautira River, Tahiti. Fisherman Spearing a Fish

John La Farge · c. 1895 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1966.6.1

Guy Pène du Bois, The Jury, c. 1940, pen and black ink over graphite on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Mrs. J.L.M. Curry), 2015.19.2695

The Jury

Guy Pène du Bois · c. 1940 · pen and black ink over graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.2695

Across a short stretch of sand in front of us, waves of bottle-green water break over two boulders on the shoreline, with sailboats in the water beyond, in this wide, horizontal painting. One boulder is at the left edge of the painting; the other is a short distance away, about a quarter of the way across. The water cascades down between those large rocks. Across the rest of the beach, the waves flare up to break toward us in white, foamy surf. The land curves back into view on both sides of the canvas with muted, sage-green hills and, to our left, dark green trees on more craggy boulders. A more distant finger of land to our left stretches nearly halfway across the horizon, which comes about halfway up the composition. Minuscule in scale there, smoke pours out of a chimney, which is surrounded by pale yellow buildings. A mound emerges from the horizon to our right of center. About ten sailboats float on the water. The closest one to us is near the center of the painting, and the tiny forms of people aboard can just barely be made out. The other boats become smaller as they move back to the horizon, and some are only a touch of white or gray on the canvas. White and pale lavender-purple clouds sweep up from the horizon into the sky, which glows butter yellow along the left edge. The sky cools to mint green in the upper right corner. Several white or brown birds fly across the sky or low over the water. The artist signed and dated the lower left, “M. J. Heade 1864.”
Martin Johnson Heade, Rio de Janeiro Bay, 1864, oil on canvas, Gift of the Avalon Foundation, 1965.2.1

Rio de Janeiro Bay

Martin Johnson Heade · 1864 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1965.2.1

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Arthur Beecher Carles · c. 1927 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.179