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Edward C. and Mary Emma Griffin Walker

he: died 1915; she: 1855 - 1937

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This painting depicts a street scene from a slightly elevated perspective. A tan dirt road stretches into the distance, lined with white houses on the left side. On the right side is a tall fence, and behind it the green tops of trees or bushes are visible. People in dark clothing walk along the street in the distance. Beyond them, taller trees are visible, with more buildings below them. The sky above is softly colored in hues of yellow, peach, and gray. The brushstrokes are loose and visible.
Alfred Sisley, Marly-le-Roi, c. 1875, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Edward C. and Mary Walker Collection), 2014.136.61

Marly-le-Roi

Alfred Sisley · c. 1875 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.61

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Landscape with Fisherman

Gustave Courbet · 1872 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.56

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Environs of Cannes

Albert André · before 1902 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.57

Lush treetops give way to a body of water and a hill in this loosely painted horizontal landscape. The trees across the bottom edge of the canvas are painted with visible or blended strokes in shades of spring, pine, and forest green, aquamarine, and midnight blue. The body of water is skimmed with pale peach, yellow, and blue before the hill rises to nearly touch the top edge of the painting. The vegetation on the hill is painted in shades of celery and olive green, navy and cobalt blue, and a few touches of rust red. Strokes of ivory white suggest houses clustered near the shoreline. The sky is painted with long strokes in pale pink along the horizon and deepens to powder blue across the top.
Auguste Renoir, View of Monte Carlo from Cap Martin, c. 1884, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Edward C. and Mary Walker Collection), 2014.136.60

View of Monte Carlo from Cap Martin

Auguste Renoir · c. 1884 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.60

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Champs-Elysées

Jean François Raffaëlli · n.d. · pastel on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.67

From high up, we look down and out at a river with seven ferries and barges, the waterway lined with buildings on the bank to our right, in this loosely painted, horizontal landscape. Dashes of muted blue, fern green, and tan create the rippling surface of the river, which fills most of the bottom half of the painting. A dark tugboat chugs out of the scene near the bottom center of the composition, and the other vessels create diagonals along the river, angled down toward the bottom right corner. Closer to us in the lower left corner of the painting, a platform edge with a railing juts out to or over the water. At least six people stand on the platform alone or in pairs. They are loosely painted with touches of black, gray, yellow, plum purple, and peach. The platform itself is painted with swipes of sky blue, oatmeal brown, butter yellow, and rose pink. Each person creates a reflection in the surface of the platform, suggesting it is wet, perhaps with rain. The spiky branches of a row of trees along the far side of the platform are sharp against the landscape beyond. The buildings on the far bank are several stories high and lined with windows. Buildings farther in the distance have triangular rooflines or domes, which become slate blue along the hazy horizon. An arched bridge with a flat deck spans the river about halfway back along the river as we see it. In the top half of the picture, fog-gray and cream-white clouds fill the sky with patches of hazy powder blue showing through. The artist signed and dated the painting in sable brown in the lower left corner, “C. Pissarro. 1900.”
Camille Pissarro, The Louvre, Afternoon, Rainy Weather, 1900, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Edward C. and Mary Walker Collection), 2014.136.59

The Louvre, Afternoon, Rainy Weather

Camille Pissarro · 1900 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.59

Sir Edwin Landseer, The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa Egerton, c. 1853, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Edward C. and Mary Walker Collection), 2014.136.58

The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa Egerton

Sir Edwin Landseer · c. 1853 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.58

We look across a channel of choppy water at three masted ships, a sailboat, at least one steamer, and three rowboats in this horizontal seascape painting. The white peaks and waves are painted with pearlescent shades of white, gold, ice blue, and the faintest pink tinge. The steamer belches gray smoke along a coastline in the distance to the left. The sailboat is farther back. Two of the three masted ships edge closer to us to the right of the sailboat. The ship is first almost halfway across the canvas from the left edge, and the second, which flies a flag vertically striped with blue, white, and red, is about two-thirds of the way across. The third masted ship is much farther away near the right edge of the composition. Two of the long rowboats are near the bottom left corner of the painting and the third is far out by the third ship. The horizon comes about a quarter of the way up the painting. Puffy gray clouds pile up on the horizon and are edged in white where they face open blue sky along the top edge. Cloud cover is streaked around the most distant ship, suggesting that a storm has begun. The scene is loosely painted with visible brushstrokes throughout. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower left corner, “E. Boudin. 83” and labeled the location to the right, “Le Havre.”
Eugène Boudin, Le Havre, 1883, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Edward C. and Mary Walker Collection), 2015.19.58

Le Havre

Eugène Boudin · 1883 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.58

Between us and a river lined with buildings on the far bank in the distance, tall willow trees nearly span the height of this horizontal landscape. The scene is loosely painted, and the color palette is almost completely dominated by cool tones of spring, sage, celery, and kelly green, and steel and sea blue. The grasses near us are painted with diagonal strokes that alternate direction and color as they move back toward the river. Golden yellow daubs in the lower right suggest blooms, and leaves on the trees are created with thin, upward strokes and dabs along slender branches. The trees reach high into a sky filled with sweeps of beige, blush pink, and spring green layered over pale blue. The river is a lavender gray, and the low, tightly clustered buildings are painted with a mix of ochre, peach, and denim blue. The artist has signed and dated the work in the lower right corner, though the final digit is illegible: “Claude Monet 188.”
Claude Monet, The Willows, 1880, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Edward C. and Mary Walker Collection), 2015.19.65

The Willows

Claude Monet · 1880 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.65

Charles-François Daubigny, Auvers (Washerwomen), 1861, oil on wood, Corcoran Collection (Edward C. and Mary Walker Collection), 2014.136.57

Auvers (Washerwomen)

Charles-François Daubigny · 1861 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  2014.136.57