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Two drawings envision " a design and plans for a farm-house of the rural gothic style, with conveniences for an estate of considerable size." This would have placed the renderings toward the beginning of that style's popularity, which also was called…

At the center of this mural is Cinderella and her horse-drawn carriage, a fanciful castle in the background. Also appearing are well-known characters from other fairy tales: at left, Little Bo Peep, Miss Muffet, and Little Boy Blue; at right, Jack…

The Wizard of Oz by Ruth Harper is an oil painting that visually interprets the world created by L. Frank Baum. The composition centers on a young female figure, likely Dorothy Gale, surrounded by a wide array of characters and animals drawn from…

A table, whose covering appears to have been folded back, becomes the space for an arrangement of flowers in a vase and a beaded necklace in a ceramic dish. Cool blues, grays, and burgundys predominate.The flat picture plane, absence of background…

The setting of this composition blurs the genres of En plein air landscapes and still lifes; there is no "background" to situate the basket of flowers in space, but the grass underneath them departs from carefully artificial indoor settings. A few…

Nature's bounty is gathered into a late-summer array: grapes, pears, peaches, a plum and a melon; behind them, heads of wheat and various flowers. It is not a haphazard grouping, given the wheat stalks poking out from green grass; the effect is…

More than a dozen species of fruit and flowers are mounded on a bed of grass. The painting's upper half, a skillfully mottled background, is crucial for establishing the space necessary to make sense of the lower half--without it, those objects…

A collection of illustrations from the 1908 book Grapes of New York by Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick. The selections are native grapes, as opposed to European-origin vinifera grapes. These varieties are seen as more "local" options that are better for the…

At the time of this painting, marine art in its modern form was less than a hundred years old. Henning shows the influence of Gustave Courbet's "landscapes of the sea" and of subsequent artists like Claude Monet, albeit in more representational form.…