American Paintings 1750–1900

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This sculpture depicts a human head of a young person wearing a hat. The facial features are detailed, including the nose, mouth, and eyes. The sculpture is made from a light-colored material that appears smooth yet slightly textured. The hat's outline and folds are visible, and the head is mounted on a small pedestal. The piece is portrayed in a three-dimensional format, providing a lifelike representation.

Study Head of a Black Soldier

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

1883/1893

Plaster  Accession ID  X.15230

On View: West Building Main Floor, Gallery M66
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The sculpture depicts the head of an individual wearing a cap that sits slightly tilted towards the right side of their head. The subject appears to be looking forward with a calm facial expression. The sculpture is crafted from a material that resembles plaster or ceramic and has a sandy beige color with subtle variations in tone, giving it a natural and realistic appearance. The texture on the surface is slightly rough, revealing detailed contours and facial features such as the nose, lips, and eyes. The sculpture is presented on a simple stand.

Study Head of a Black Soldier

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

1883/1893

Plaster  Accession ID  X.15231

On View: West Building Main Floor, Gallery M66
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This painting depicts a dark brown teapot and a fish on a white cloth. The fish is mostly greenish gray, with some white and pale red scales. It appears to be propped up on something, perhaps a plate or another fish, and its head is facing the right. The teapot is on the left, with its spout turned towards us. The background is textured beige, and the white cloth below the objects has some small folds in it.

An English Breakfast

John Frederick Peto

c. 1890s

Oil on academy board  Accession ID  1999.79.30

On View: West Building Main Floor, Gallery M69
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Dr. William Thomson

Thomas Eakins

1906

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  2025.89.4

On View: West Building Main Floor, Gallery M69
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Still Life of Flowers

Adelheid Dietrich

1868

Oil on wood  Accession ID  2025.89.3

On View: West Building Main Floor, Gallery M69
Several pieces of fruit, a bunch of green grapes, a stem of raisins, and several types of nuts in their shells are piled on a putty-brown tabletop or ledge with rounded corners against a dark background in this horizontal still life painting. The food is brightly lit from the front, and we look slightly down onto the table. There are two round red apples and two pieces of small yellow fruit, perhaps quinces, flanking a golden yellow pear at the back center. The bunch of grapes drapes over the fruit to our right and the raisins lie between the apples. Thirteen walnuts, peanuts, almonds, hazelnuts, and perhaps a brazil nut are scattered in a loose band in front of the fruit. The surface on which the still life sits becomes swallowed in shadow behind the fruit, and blends into the dark brown background. The artist signed and dated the work in dark paint in the lower right corner, almost lost in shadow under the ledge: “R.S. Duncanson 1848.”

Still Life with Fruit and Nuts

Robert Seldon Duncanson

1848

Oil on board  Accession ID  2011.98.1

On View: West Building Main Floor, Gallery M69
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The painting features a valley with purple and brown mountains in the distance, surrounding a reflective body of water with a small rowboat floating on it. Closer to us, there are gray rocks, brown tree trunks and branches, and lush green vegetation at the edge of the water. The sky above is painted in warm shades of yellow, peach, and orange, which transition to pale greenish-blue at the top. The water below reflects these colors, as well as those of the distant mountain and surrounding trees.

American Landscape

Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome

1872

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  2025.25.1

On View: West Building Main Floor, Gallery M64
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Far below us, a river winds through a valley lined with hazy mountains in this horizontal landscape painting. In the distance, the line of mountains emerges from the left, near the top of the canvas, and marches down toward the center, growing lighter and mistier in the distance. Streaks of olive-green growth drape down their sides, and pale sunlight from the upper right warms their craggy faces, which are painted in tones of peach, tan, taupe, and parchment white with pewter-gray fissures. The mountains move across the canvas and angle way from us, to our right. There, they are overlapped, just off center, by a tree-covered slope that emerges from the right. At its foot is a steel-gray river that winds from the lower right toward the center of the composition. The land sweeps down from the left side, spreading out into meadows that meet the river. They are carpeted in moss green with streaks and patches of rust-brown earth and scattered with clusters of trees painted in tones of celery, olive, and pine green. Closest to us and near the lower left corner of the painting, is a man, tiny in scale, on a flat bluff. He wears a white coat and trousers, and sits hunched on a stool facing our left. He looks toward a grove of trees with pea-green leaves and ginger-brown trunks that tower over him, along the left edge of the composition. He has turned away from a painting on an easel that stands just beyond him, and an open wooden box that sits on the ground behind him. A closed, seafoam-green parasol also lies nearby. Just beyond the lip of the bluff and down in the valley are creamy white dots that suggest livestock. Farther back, near the foot of the mountains, a cluster of buildings sit near the tree line in the meadow. Wispy white clouds drift through the light azure-blue sky. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower left corner, “THOS.MORAN.1864 OP.8.”

The Juniata, Evening

Thomas Moran

1864

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  2010.107.1

On View: West Building Main Floor, Gallery M64
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Tall, billowing, lavender-purple and shell-pink clouds line the distant horizon over a vast plain of flat grassy land in this horizontal landscape painting. Closest to us to the lower left, a tree with a gnarled trunk and round, sage-green canopy sits mostly in shadow. A river curves from near the tree to cut across most of the landscape in a tight S-shape. One plump haystack, shaped like a giant teardrop, sits near a curve of the river in the vivid, lemon-lime field, to our left of center. One brown and one white cow graze across the river, to our right. Above tawny-brown hills lining the horizon, sunlight from our left turns the tops of the band of clouds pale pink, and the undersides are grayish-purple. The sky above is turquoise. The artist signed the lower right corner, “M J Heade.”

Sunlight and Shadow: The Newbury Marshes

Martin Johnson Heade

c. 1871/1875

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  2010.74.1

On View: West Building Main Floor, Gallery M65
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This painting shows a winter landscape with snow-covered ground and tall, dark trees with straight trunks. The color palette is almost entirely white, gray, and black, with some dark brown leaves on the trees. Small gray shrubs and grass are visible peeking through the white snow, and the dense trees cast gray shadows. The sky beyond the trees is white.

Woods in Winter

Charles Warren Eaton

1886

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  2015.162.1

On View: West Building Main Floor, Gallery M65
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The image displays a silver-colored jug with a large body adorned with a leaf pattern and a curved handle. The color scheme is primarily metallic silver with highlights and reflections. The jug is centered in the image with the spout slightly angled to the right and the handle on the left side.

Ewer

Simon Chaudron, Anthony Rasch

c. 1809/1812

Silver  Accession ID  2020.159.3

On View: West Building Main Floor, Gallery M62
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The image shows a large silver teapot with a unique spout shaped like an eagle's head, a dark handle, and intricate engravings. It has claw-footed legs, a finial on the lid, and an oval emblem on its side. The color scheme is mainly metallic silver with dark accents.

Five-Piece Tea/Coffee Service

Thomas Fletcher, Sidney Gardiner

c. 1815

Silver  Accession ID  2020.159.1

On View: West Building Main Floor, Gallery M62
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