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Drawing of two women and a chaise titled "after Saturday night's shopping"

Contemporary photograph of the now-vacant Avon movie theater. It was built at the end of the silent movie era, in 1930s Avon New York.

This painting, seemingly located on the upper Mohawk River, assumes a timeless, mythical quality. Bierstadt was one of several second-generation Hudson School artists associated with "luminism," a technique using aerial perspective and…

Blacks and grays are used to create a scene of women working in a factory at sewing machines. Birkin uses this monochrome palette to create a sense of weariness: no light comes in through the dark windows, leaving miserly electric lights inside to…

A rural landscape near Kingston, NY is structured to guide a viewer's eye from foreground into the middle distance through a gently curving route or boundary line, creating depth by progressively reducing detail as the land recedes. The image relies…

This painting features a vase of flowers and a spilling fruit bowl on an upholstered chair. The left half of the painting is busier than the right, which gives a sense of unbalance. Warm colors are used, such as reds and pinks, and brush strokes are…

Carl Moore was the "crew leader" for Roy Gibson's farm near Wayland, NY. What this title meant is that he served as an intermediary between farmer and migrant farmworkers: he recruited them (from Florida) and bused them up to New York; their wages…

Under a pale sky, we look uphill along a crooked line of split-rail fences and melting snow toward a pair of dormant trees and farm buildings. Bolton’s close attention to Catskill landscapes is apparent in his treatment of patterns in melting snow;…

The first paragraph of this handwritten document written by B. Boorman reads &quot;Sir The totals of last Month (Nov.) which was put on book the beginning of this Month I do not know if you have taken act of Therefore give it below[:] <br /> 17 Bus 30 lbs…

12 images at GSA.