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Watercolor drawing of a thriving nature scene. We look down at a lush tangle of green leafy plant life with bluebells and white primroses. Five shining teal bird's eggs lay in a cozy moss and twig nest in the lower left.

Brief Biography of Jane Ogden

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Artist Jane Ogden (British, ca. 1845–1928) painted flowers and other still-life subjects in oil and watercolor.

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Double Take: Art and Disability

Curator Drawing Happenings
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Back to the Drawing Board: Jarrett Key

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Violets in green foreground, two bare tree trunks in middle distance, trees with foliage on lighter green ground, background and sky, lavender.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Charles Burchfield
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Five works on paper in the RISD Museum’s collection follow the arc of C

Two young women standing on deck the Staten Island ferry on its approach to Governors Island. A middle-aged gentleman in a fedora looks towards the downtown skyline in a panorama view across southern tip of Manhattan.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Reginald Marsh
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Reginald Marsh, the son of American artists Fred Dana Marsh and Alice R

Half-length view of young man in overalls with mouth of jug in his left hand raised to his lips; reins held in his right hand; building visible on horizon beyond field.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Grant Wood's Plowing on Sunday
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Plowing on Sunday, from about 1934

Fashionable dress women walks her dog in Boston Public Garden

American Drawings and Watercolors

Childe Hassam's Woman and Mastiff in the Boston Public Garden and Diamond Cove, Appledore
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Childe Hassam, a successful young book and magazine illustrator, made h

Pen and ink drawing depicting a great ravine in Amalfi, stone bridge and in the distance stucco buildings and roof of a barn.

American Drawings and Watercolors

William Stanley Haseltine's Amalfi
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William Stanley Haseltine first studied painting in Philadelphia with t

Drawing depicting a young child lying on a bed,  the eyes and chin with deep shadows and relies on the brightness of the paper to emphasize the nose and brow. The effect of lamplight is suggested by the color of the paper as revealed through black veils of charcoal.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Eastman Johnson's Child in Bed
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Eastman Johnson was raised in Maine in a family of eight children, and

Drawing of a yard of a cooperage on the banks of the Rhine. a landscape depicted of tan tone of a smooth-surfaced paper.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Albert Bierstadt's Landscape on the Rhine
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Albert Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Germany, but came to the United States with his family in 1832 and settled with them in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Old peasant woman standing, with gloved hands folded across her waist. She's wearing heavy clothing, scarf and hat.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Edwin Austin Abbey's Old Peasant Woman
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Curator Maureen C. O'Brien discusses American drawings and watercolors in the RISD Museum collection

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