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Title: Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: Hugo Reisinger
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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width, 25 inches On the Water, Dreaming, it might be called;dreaming with a sense of perfect restfulness and se-curity, on placid waters that mirror the beauties ofnature around them and do not interrupt the silence ofthe countryside even with the sound of a ripple. A smallstream broadens into a pool in the foreground, and herea blond-haired young woman, in a white waist withsleeves rolled up, and a gray skirt, is seated in a square-ended punt, her head turned three-quarters from thespectator. Her paddle is idle, lying in the boat, anuwith elbow on knee and chin resting in her hand shegazes dreamily into the softly colored water. In themiddle distance a small bridge crosses the stream, andbeyond and overhead is a thin, light mass of pale greenand greenish-yellow foliage. Signed at the lower right, R. Reid. Illustrated in Masterpieces of American Painting, a selection ofPhotogravures after Paintings exhibited at the Royal Acad-emy of Arts, Berlin, 1910. Purchased from the artist, 1908.
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No. 22LED A AND THE SWAN BY CHILDE HASSAM, N.A. Cliilde Hassam,N.A. M American: 1859— V 22—LEDA AND THE SWAX Height, 25 inches; length, 30 inches The nude figure of Leda, who reclines on one elbow ona yellow and green bank, her feet dangling in the bluewater of a stream before her, is turned from the specta-tor and her face is in profile as she looks down at theswan approaching from the left. The figures are in thelight of an open space between groups of slender treeswhich rise screen-like on the nearer edge of the stream.The trees appear dark green against the low, sun-bathedhillside that forms the farther bank. In the narrowforeground the grass and matted leaves, green and yel-low, are varied with flower notes in a depression at thewaters edge—between the soft flesh tones of the nudefigure and the bold white of the swan—and out in thestream the moving and mottled waters are streaked withsilvery ripples. Signed at the lower right, Childe Hassam, 1902.From the W. T. Evans Coll

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