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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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^ Childe Hassam, N.A. American: 1859—6—DRYADS Height, 13J4 inches; length, I614 inches Lightly the leaves rustle on delicate branches of slendertrees, swayed by soft zephyrs of Natures kindly season,and two young women have gone back to the days of thenymphs, and in the freedom of the nude sport among thetrees along the bank of a turquoise river. They areclimbing out of the water to a low green and yellowbank, and loosened leaves of varied light colors nutterin the air about them. at the lower left, Childe Hassam, 1906.Purchased from N. E. Montross, New York, 1906.
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George Hitchcock American : 1850— 0 vL J 7—FLOWERING HOLLAND Height, 17 inches; length, 22 inches A glimpse of Holland in April, when even the soft grayskies of the humid Low Countries cannot lessen or lowerthe gorgeous golden-yellow, the vigorous reds andorange, the varied pinks and full-flushed white of thegreat tulip beds, or the luscious green of the succulentgrasses in the meadows about them. Here, in the fore-ground, the tulips are white, in the middle distance theyare golden, the blazing gold encompassed within bedsof orange, crimson, pinks and varied yellows, beyondwhich are flat green meadows dotted with brown wind-mills. Signed at the lower right, G. Hitchcock. Purchased from M. Knoedler $• Co., New York, 1907.

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