American Paintings 1750–1900

On View: West Building, Main Floor

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The image shows a large, polished silver pitcher with intricate bead detailing around its neck and base. The handle is sculpted in the form of a stylized animal, likely an eagle, with its head at the top of the handle and its body merging into the base. The color palette is predominantly silver, with various shades created by reflections and shadows, giving it a metallic shine. In the center of the pitcher, there is an engraved emblem or crest positioned prominently on the front face. The spout of the pitcher extends slightly forward, leading the eye from left to right across the image, while the handle curves from the back towards the right side.

Water Pitcher with Eagle Handle

Robert Swan, John McMullin

c. 1799/1831

Silver  Accession ID  2020.159.5

On View: West Building Main Floor, Gallery M62
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We look out across a band of broad, craggy boulders at an ocean bay dotted with boats in this horizontal landscape painting. The tops of the flat boulders are caramel brown in the sunlight and darker, rust-brown shadows down the sides. Smoke-gray fissures create web-like crevices across their surfaces. A few rocks sit atop the boulders, and a glassy pool created in a shallow near the lower right corner reflects the pale blue sky. The water beyond is a blend of aquamarine blue and bottle green with choppy waves that break and spray up white against the boulders. Two people wearing straw-colored hats are near the water on the far side of the boulders. One wears a red shirt, brown pants, and holds out a fishing rod. A basket sits near his feet nearby. Just to our left, a woman wearing a rose-pink dress sits and seems to look off into the distance. One sailboat is at the center of the composition in the distance, and several, even smaller touches of ivory-white along the horizon suggest more sailboats almost out of sight. Also hazy in the far distance, a finger of sand-brown land topped with pale, sage-green growth extends about halfway across the horizon, which comes about halfway up the composition. A few light gray clouds drift across the sky, which lightens from powder blue across the top to nearly white along the horizon. Several white birds with black wing tips fly over the water. The artist initialled and dated the lower left, “W.S.H 64.”

Narragansett Bay

William Stanley Haseltine

1864

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  2010.10.1

On View: West Building Main Floor, Gallery M64
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In this oval painting, a cluster of ripe red raspberries is surrounded by green leaves. The raspberries are in the center of the painting, surrounded by the leaves that extend towards the edges. Some berries hang from thin green stems over the leaves, towards the light brown ground. The background includes some shadowed green plants and a brown sky.

Raspberries

Lilly Martin Spencer

c. 1859

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  2005.161.1

On View: West Building Main Floor, Gallery M69
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A dented copper kettle rests on a forest-green tablecloth in this horizontal still life painting. The kettle takes up the left two-thirds of the composition, and the finial of the lid and the tall spout nearly reach the top edge of the painting. The spout is angled to our right, and the far side of the kettle beyond the spout falls into shadow. The lid sits loosely on the opening. A thin, yellow matchstick with a dark blue head lays flat on the tablecloth just in front of the kettle and below its spout. A tornado-shaped area gouge is dug out of the elephant-gray wall behind the kettle.

The Old Kettle

John Frederick Peto

c. 1890s

Oil on wood  Accession ID  1999.79.31

On View: West Building Main Floor, Gallery M69
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This painting depicts a side view of a seated woman facing the right, showing the upper half of her body and the top of her legs. She is sitting on a dark wooden chair with horizontal slats visible at the back. The woman is positioned in profile, looking slightly downward, and holding a white cup and saucer with both hands. The woman has fair skin, a small nose, and a small chin. The top of her face and her hair are hidden by the large hat she wears, which is adorned with colorful fruits and flowers in shades of white, yellow, light pink, and light green. She wears a blue and white dress with frilled sleeves. The background is a beige wall.

Five O'Clock

Gretchen W. Rogers

c. 1910

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  2022.131.1

On View: West Building Main Floor, Gallery M70

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