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The size of this inlet isn’t clear because of perspectival ambiguitiess: if the two houses at left are modest in scale, then the boats across from them either are tiny or far in the distance. Regardless, in the distance we see perhaps three or four…

This scene at the edge of a forest is drawn using remarkably sparse details, for example a few brushstrokes evoking a vegetable garden, a house, or a hill. Much of Nakagawa’s attention has been devoted to dense and multicolored foliage at left and…

"Breaking ground with a Reeves steam tractor pulling a 12 row sod-busting plow in Haskell County, KS the very early 1900’s."

Nearby to many of New York's factories, power plants, and slaughterhouses, there's an obvious social ecology to Myers' choice of location. It's possible that the photographic of this painting may have mis-titled it, given frequent references to a…

Named in honor of Gen. James Wadsworth, killed in the Civil War, this location at the entrance to New York Harbor always has been strategic and featured batteries since Europeans arrived in America.About the Artist: Born in Shelbyville, IN, Ross was…

This cottage has a long history, almost entirely due to the writer Edgar Allan Poe and his wife, Virginia Clemm, occupying it at the end of their lives and in poor health. The building lay in neglect, eventually was moved, and now is preserved by the…

At the time of this painting Harlem had the highest population density in New York, so it is a surprise to see remaining pockets of its originally rural identity. On the hill above, we see newer and more expensive housing.About the Artist: Born in…

Oil painting of Greenich Village nightlife location dismissed by a Federal Writers Project description as "an uninteresting hodgepodge of buildings of varying sizes and ages, suggesting little of the charm that lies beyond its limits." In 1982, a…