Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MFA VTS: Urban Scenes Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Lesson 1

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? At Dusk (Boston Common at Twilight) 1885–86 Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935) Dimensions 106.68 x 152.4 cm (42 x 60 in.) Accession Number 31.952 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Freddy, Mr. Scott (the neighborhood policeman), and Emily Provenance Amelia Maria Ely Howe; to her daughter Emily Howe Marks; to her daughter Amelia Marks; by whom given to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Accession Date: September 16, 2009) Credit Line Gift of Amelia Marks in memory of Emily Howe Marks and Frederick Ely Howe, and in honor of their other children: Anne Marks Morgan, Frederick Howe Marks, George Aaron Marks, Jr., and Marjorie Howe Beckler 1909–13 Amelia Maria Ely Howe, American, 1874–1932 Dimensions Sheet: 7.6 x 10.2 cm (3 x 4 in.) Other (Leather Album): 14.6 x 18.4 cm (5 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.) Accession Number 2009.4365.25 Medium or Technique Photograph, silver prints

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Girl Skipping Rope 1943 Ben Shahn (American (born in Lithuania), 1898–1969) Dimensions 40.32 x 60.64 cm (15 7/8 x 23 7/8 in.) Accession Number 1971.702 Medium or Technique Tempera on board

Lesson 2

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Children on Fish Weir Provenance Stephen T. Rose, Boston; purchased May 1978. Credit Line Gift of Clifford S. Ackley Carlo Naya, Italian (Venice (?)), 1816–1882 Dimensions Image/Sheet: 23.9 x 18.4 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/4 in.) Accession Number 1978.173 Medium or Technique Photograph, albumen print

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Tire Jumping in Front of My Window 1936–47 Allan Rohan Crite (American, 1910–2007) Dimensions Height x width: 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (59.7 x 44.5 cm) Accession Number 2007.3 Medium or Technique Oil on canvasboard

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Flying Kites, Montmartre 1906 William James Glackens (American, 1870–1938) Dimensions 60.32 x 81.28 cm (23 3/4 x 32 in.) Accession Number 38.7 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas

Lesson 3

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? The Son 1987 Tina Barney (American, born in 1945) Dimensions 48 x 60 inches Accession Number 2006.1261 Medium or Technique C-print On View Jeanne and Stokley Towles Gallery (Gallery 261)

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Pigeons 1910 John Sloan (American, 1871–1951) Dimensions 66.36 x 81.28 cm (26 1/8 x 32 in.) Accession Number 35.52 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Home-Workers in N. Y. 1915 Lewis W. Hine, American, 1874–1940 Medium Photograph, gelatin silver print Classification Photographs Accession Number 1973.490

Lesson 4

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? In the Loge 1878 Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844–1926) Catalogue Raisonné Breeskin 73 Dimensions 81.28 x 66.04 cm (32 x 26 in.) Accession Number 10.35 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Working Girls in the Style of 1911 1911 Lewis W. Hine, American, 1874–1940 Dimensions 12.7 x 17.1 cm (5 x 6 3/4 in.) Medium Photograph, gelatin silver print Classification Photographs Accession Number 1980.298

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Cocktails about 1926 Archibald Motley (American, 1891–1981) Dimensions 81.3 x 101.6 cm (32 x 40 in.) Accession Number 2011.1859 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas

Lesson 5

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Room in Brooklyn 1932 Edward Hopper (American, 1882–1967) Dimensions Unframed: 73.98 x 86.36 cm (29 1/8 x 34 in.) Framed: 88.9 x 100.3 x 7.6 cm (35 x 39 1/2 x 3 in.) Accession Number 35.66 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Clean Up or Else 1910 Lewis W. Hine, American, 1874–1940 Dimensions 12.7 x 17.78 cm (5 x 7 in.) Medium Photograph, gelatin silver print Classification Photographs Accession Number 1980.321

Children Listening to Music 1977 James Weeks, American Acrylic on canvas 67 x94 in. Accesion number: 1978.80

Lesson 6

Boulevard Saint-Denis, Argenteuil in Winter Claude Monet, French 24 x 31 1/8 in. Oil on canvas Accession number: 1978.633

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Title: Madonna of Dudley Station (Curve in the Tracks). Number 4 from the series Madonnas of Transportation Date: 1987 Related People: By: Allan Rohan Crite American, 1910–2007 Object Number: 2002.329 Status: Not On View Dimensions: Image: 26.4 x 40.4cm (10 3/8 x 15 7/8in.) Sheet: 27.9 x 43.2 cm (11 x 17 in.) Medium: Offset lithograph Credit Line: The Living New England Artist Purchase Fund, created by The Stephen and Sybil Stone Foundation Web Description: Allan Rohan Crite, an SMFA graduate from the 1930s, has lived in Boston's South End for nine decades and is that neighborhood's greatest chronicler of African-American life. Two major themes have dominated the artist's long career: everyday depictions of the African-American community, and Biblical illustrations with black protagonists. He often combined the two, as in his 1946 painting Madonna of the Subway, which imagines a black Virgin Mary and Christ Child riding the Orange Line. Crite revisited the subject forty years later in this series of thirteen superbly drawn lithographs. Provenance: Allan Rohan Crite and Jackie Cox-Crite, Boston, MA, from whom purchased by the MFA September 25, 2002

A Street in Winter: Evening about 1855 Unidentified artist, American 15 x 18 1/8 in. Oil on canvas Accession number: 47.1216

Lesson 7

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Washington Square, New York 1910 Everett Shinn, American, 1876–1953 Dimensions Height x width: 22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm) Medium Pastel on paper board Classification Pastels Accession Number 2008.45

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Title: Stop the World We Want to Get On; Women's Rights March Date: published 1981 By: Garry Winogrand American, 1928–1984 Object Number: 2005.1078 Status: Not On View Dimensions: Sheet: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.) Medium: Photograph, gelatin silver print Credit Line: Gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press Descriptions: From the portfolio, "Women are Beautiful" Provenance: Purchased by Jeanne and Richard Press, Weston, MA; gift to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, December 31, 2006

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Women of Paris: The Circus Lover 1885 James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836–1902) DIMENSIONS 147.3 x 101.6 cm (58 x 40 in.) ACCESSION NUMBER 58.45 MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE Oil on canvas