2001 Resource Library articles and essays with the topic "American 19-20th Century Representational Art"

(above: Joseph Badger, Portrait of James Bowdoin I, a merchant and father of Governor James Bowdoin, 1746-47, oil on canvas, 51 1/8 x 40 1/8 inches, Detroit Institute of Arts. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

(above: Hugo Ballin, Mural at Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Los Angeles, Photograph from Hugo Ballin's Los Angeles by Caroline Luce. Photography by Tom Bonner**. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

(above: Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901), Boston Street Scene (Boston Common), c. 1898-99, oil on panel, 8 x 5.5 in. Walters Art Museum, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Eddie and Sylvia Brown Challenge Grant and matching funds, 2002. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

(above: Edward Mitchell Bannister, Untitled Landscape, 1883, oil on cardboard, 8 x 10 inches, El Paso Museum of Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

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