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Edward Mitchell Bannister, Bright Scene of Cattle near Stream
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Melvin and H. Alan Frank from the Frank Family Collection · Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Open Access (CC0)View original →
Edward Mitchell Bannister

Bright Scene of Cattle near Stream

Current Collection

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C., United States

Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
56.5 × 92.1 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-136510

Although he never traveled abroad, Edward Bannister was influenced by nineteenth-century French landscape paintings from the Barbizon school. The Barbizon artists rejected the position held by the conservative French Academy, which did not consider landscape painting a noteworthy facet of art. In Bright Scene of Cattle near Stream, Bannister painted a peaceful view of three cattle grazing in a lu…

Provenance

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Melvin and H. Alan Frank from the Frank Family Collection

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