Robert Carlen

est. 1937

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Dana Smith, Southern Resort Town, c. 1880, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1971.83.11

Southern Resort Town

Dana Smith · c. 1880 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1971.83.11

A woman with smooth, pale skin and wearing a hat, long dress, and gloves, stands holding a bunch of pumpkin-orange leaves against a background of trees painted with touches of rust orange and pine green in this vertical painting. The woman tips her head back slightly to look at us with dark eyes under arched eyebrows. Her cheeks are flushed and her coral-pink lips closed. Her round black hat perches on the back of her head and she has an inky black, long-sleeved, hip-length jacket with bronze trim at the shoulders, cuffs, and down the front. A gauzy bow is tied at her neck. Her left elbow, on our right, is bent and she holds up her tan-colored, ruffled skirt with a white-gloved hand. The raised skirt exposes sky-blue lining and white, ruffled flounces at her feet. Her right arm, on our left, hangs at her side and holds the handle of a basket. Deep marigold-orange leaves cascade out of the basket. One black shoe peeks out from under her long skirt. She stands on a hill carpeted with crimson-red, tawny-brown, golden yellow, and forest-green leaves. The space behind her is filled with touches and dabs of red, orange, brown, black, and tan.
Winslow Homer, Autumn, 1877, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.22

Autumn

Winslow Homer · 1877 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1985.64.22

A pale-skinned child wearing a short-sleeved red dress and a white bonnet stands before a shadowy green forest under dark clouds in this vertical portrait painting. The child’s over-large head is out of scale with the rest of her body. She looks toward us with brown eyes in her wide, round-jawed face. She has a broad nose, and her pale lips are set in a line. Her lace bonnet lines her black hair like frothy seafoam and is tied with spring-green bows at the top and under her right ear, to our left. The low neckline of her crimson dress is lined with a wide white ruffle. Red fabric covers her hands, which are gathered in front of her waist. Gray clouds sweep over the hazy green forest in the background. A gnarled tree grows up the left side of the painting, framing the girl.
Edward Hicks, Portrait of a Child, c. 1840, oil on wood, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1980.62.14

Portrait of a Child

Edward Hicks · c. 1840 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1980.62.14

American 19th Century, Bucks County Farm Outside Doylestown, Pennsylvania, c. 1890, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1980.61.6

Bucks County Farm Outside Doylestown, Pennsylvania

American 19th Century · c. 1890 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1980.61.6

Käthe Kollwitz, The Homeless, 1908, black crayon and charcoal on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1944.8.2

The Homeless

Käthe Kollwitz · 1908 · black crayon and charcoal on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1944.8.2

Edward Hicks, The Landing of Columbus, c. 1837, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1980.62.13

The Landing of Columbus

Edward Hicks · c. 1837 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1980.62.13

Jurgan Frederick Huge, Composite Harbor Scene with Castle, c. 1875, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1969.11.2

Composite Harbor Scene with Castle

Jurgan Frederick Huge · c. 1875 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1969.11.2

Three small children with pale pink skin sit and stand among a group of animals to our right as a group of eight indigenous people with light brown skin gather with eight white-skinned men near a riverbank in the distance to our left in this horizontal painting. The children and animals take up the right two-thirds of the composition. They gather on a flat-topped spit of land, which is covered in grass. All three children have blond hair and rounded features. Two sit on the ground at the bottom center of the painting. The largest animal is a caramel-brown bull, which stands next to a pale golden lion. The other animals are smaller in scale, and include a tiger, wolf, sheep, goats, cows, bears, and a jaguar, all sitting or standing at rest around the bull and lion. At the top center of the group of animals, one child stands over the lion’s back and has one arm around the tiger’s shoulders, and another child at the lower center touches the jaguar’s nose. A tree with olive-green, rust-red, and harvest-yellow leaves grows up the right edge of the canvas, in front of a tall, forest-green bush. On another spit of flat-topped, elevated grassy land to our left, six of the indigenous people stand in a row, wearing feathered headdresses. Two more kneel in front, creating a U-shape. The two in front wear loin cloths, and all eight wear gold earrings and necklaces. They face a gathering of eight men wearing tricorn hats, long coats, waistcoats, knee-length britches, and stockings in shades of gray, blue, white, brown, and orange. One of these men hold up a roll of cloth lifted out of a chest. Trees with spindly trunks and golden yellow canopies reach into the top corner of the painting along the left edge. The river extends into the distance beyond this group, with pale, sage-green hills carpeted in trees. Puffy white clouds float across a sky that deepens from pale shell pink along the horizon to light blue along the top. The features of the animals and children are painted simply and appear rather flat, giving them an almost cartoonish look.
Edward Hicks, Peaceable Kingdom, c. 1834, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1980.62.15

Peaceable Kingdom

Edward Hicks · c. 1834 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1980.62.15

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The Truants

Joshua Shaw · 1843 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2016.22.22

Julian Alden Weir, U.S. Thread Company Mills, Willimantic, Connecticut, c. 1893/1897, oil on canvas, Gift of Margaret and Raymond Horowitz, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1990.74.1

U.S. Thread Company Mills, Willimantic, Connecticut

Julian Alden Weir · c. 1893/1897 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1990.74.1