MFA VTS: Comparing Landscapes: Urban Town and Country in Art 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? 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

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Pleasure Outing at Mukôjima to View Cherry Blossoms Mukôjima kôraku zu 向島行楽図 Japanese Edo period 1781–1801 (late Tenmei to early Kansei era) Utagawa Toyoharu (Japanese, 1735–1814) Catalogue Raisonné KJM2-Ukiyo-315; Drama and Desire (2007), cat. no. 50 Dimensions Image: 66.2 x 122 cm (26 1/16 x 48 1/16 in.) Overall: 205 x 151 cm (80 11/16 x 59 7/16 in.) Accession Number 11.4639 Medium or Technique Hanging scroll; ink, color, gold, and mica on silk

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? At the Races in the Countryside 1869 Edgar Degas, French, 1834–1917 Dimensions 36.5 x 55.9 cm (14 3/8 x 22 in.) Medium Oil on canvas Classification Paintings Accession Number 26.790

Lesson 2

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Scene in Cairo about 1864 Charles Théodore Frère, French, 1814–1888 Dimensions 38.4 x 61.9 cm (15 1/8 x 24 3/8 in.) Medium Oil on canvas Classification Paintings Accession Number RES.24.1

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Safety Display 1911 Lewis W. Hine, American, 1874–1940 Dimensions 11.9 x 16.5 cm (4 11/16 x 6 1/2 in.) Medium Photograph, gelatin silver print Classification Photographs Accession Number 1980.299

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

Lesson 3

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? Marshintonio Family 1910s Lewis W. Hine, American, 1874–1940 Dimensions Sight: 7 x 10.2 cm (2 3/4 x 4 in.) Medium Photograph, vintage gelatin silver print Classification Photographs Accession Number 2008.1432

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Dante and Virgil 1859 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French, 1796–1875 Dimensions 260.4 x 170.5 cm (102 1/2 x 67 1/8 in.) Medium Oil on canvas Classification Paintings Accession Number 75.2

Lesson 4

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? A Pic Nick in the Woods of New England about 1855 Jerome B. Thompson, American, 1814–1886 Dimensions 103.82 x 157.48 cm (40 7/8 x 62 in.) Medium Oil on canvas Classification Paintings Accession Number 46.852

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Family Seated in Boat Wada Sanzô, Japanese, 1883–1967 Dimensions Overall: 8.8 x 13.8 cm (3 7/16 x 5 7/16 in.) Medium Color lithograph; ink on card stock Classification Postcards Accession Number 2002.1363

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Carnival, Franklin Park, Boston 1897 Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American (born in Canada), 1858–1924) CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ Clark, Matthews, Owens 0611 DIMENSIONS Sheet: 34 x 37.5 cm (13 3/8 x 14 3/4 in.) Framed: 54 x 59.7 cm (21 1/4 x 23 1/2 in.) ACCESSION NUMBER 35.1689 MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE Watercolor over graphite pencil on paper

Lesson 5

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? \New York Harbor     Date: about 1855 Related People: By: Fitz Henry Lane American, 1804–1865 Object Number: 

Enfants dans la Première Neige - Children in the First Snow 1955, printed 1981 Édouard Boubat, French Photograph, gelatin silver print 9 3.8 x 14 1/8 in. Accession number: 1982.687

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? New England Early Winter 1849 Samuel Lancaster Gerry (American, 1813–1891) DIMENSIONS 66.36 x 91.44 cm (26 1/8 x 36 in.) ACCESSION NUMBER 48.409 MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE Oil on canvas

Lesson 6

At the Vermont State Fair, Rutland negative 1941, printed later Jack Delano, American 9 x 13 in. Photoraphy, dye transfer print Accession number: 2002.392

Riding on Snow Japanese, Taishô-early Shôwa era Artist Unidentified, Japanese Place of Creation: Japan 5 7/16 in x 3 7/16 in. Color woodblock print; ink on paper Accession number: 2002.3202

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Turkey Shoot 1879 John Whetten Ehninger (American, 1827–1889) Dimensions 63.5 x 110.17 cm (25 x 43 3/8 in.) Accession Number 46.854 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas

Lesson 7

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

Running Before the Storm about 1870 Unidentified artist, American 24 x 36 1/4 in. Oil on canvas Accession number: 46.851

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Skating on a Frozen River about 1650 Barent Avercamp (Dutch, 1612 or 1613–1679) Dimensions 33.7 x 45.1 cm (13 1/4 x 17 3/4 in.) Accession Number 60.982 Medium or Technique Oil on panel