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

2. Lesson 1

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
x cm (42 x 60 in.)
Accession Number
31.952
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

4. 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
Medium or Technique
Photograph, silver prints

5. 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 cm (15 7/8 x 23 7/8 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Tempera on board

6. Lesson 2

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
Medium or Technique
Photograph, albumen print

8. 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

9. 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 cm (23 3/4 x 32 in.)
Accession Number
38.7
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

10. Lesson 3

11. 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
Medium or Technique
C-print
On View
Jeanne and Stokley Towles Gallery (Gallery 261)

12. 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 cm (26 1/8 x 32 in.)
Accession Number
35.52
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

13. 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

14. Lesson 4

15. 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 cm (32 x 26 in.)
Accession Number
10.35
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

16. 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

17. 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 cm (32 x 40 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

18. Lesson 5

19. 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: x cm (29 1/8 x 34 in.) Framed: 88.9 x x 7.6 cm (35 x 39 1/2 x 3 in.)
Accession Number
35.66
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

20. 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 cm (5 x 7 in.)
Medium
Photograph, gelatin silver print
Classification
Photographs
Accession Number

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

22. Lesson 6

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

24. 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: 
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

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

26. Lesson 7

27. 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

28. What is going on in this image?
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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: 
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

29. 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 cm (58 x 40 in.)
ACCESSION NUMBER
58.45
MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE
Oil on canvas