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22 items match your search for items with the tag "Oil paintings".-
Bay Path Road
Identifier: ART002.
Format: Oil.
Creator: unknown.
An oil painting of a landscape with dirt road in foreground, Mt. Holyoke Range in background, 2 standing figures in foreground..
Displayed in the Hampshire Room, Forbes Library. Northampton, Mass.… -
Old Wooden Bridge on South Street
Identifier: ART003.
Format: Oil.
Creator: unknown.
An oil painting of a wooden, covered bridge over the Mill River, Northampton, MA. In the backdrop, are trees and a distant house. :South Street Bridge" written on l.l.
Painting is… -
Portrait of Frederic A. Macomber
Identifier: ART005.
Format: Oil.
Creator: unknown.
An oil painting of Frederic A. Macomber, Treasurer, Trustees of Forbes Library, 1894-1920.
Displayed on the back stairs in Forbes Library, Northampton, Mass.
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Cook's Dam at Leeds
Identifier: ART006.
Format: Oil.
Creator: unknown.
An oil painting of Cook's Dam and bridge over Mill River in Leeds with two figures in foreground at base of dam. In background are trees with autumn colored leaves.
Displayed in the Forbes… -
Portrait of Calvin Coolidge
Identifier: ART007.
Format: Oil.
Creator: unknown.
An oil painting of former President Calvin Coolidge, a resident of Northampton. Three-quarter seated portrait holding a book. Displayed in the Coolidge Room, Forbes Library. Northampton, Mass.
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Landscape, Plymouth, Vermont (hills looking westward from Coolidge homestead)
Identifier: ART008.
Format: Oil painting.
landscape oil painting of Plymouth, Vermont, hills in background, farmhouse in mid-distance.
Hung in the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum, Forbes Library, Northampton, MA. -
Calvin Coolidge as Chief Wamblee-Tokaha of the tribe of Sioux Indians
Identifier: ART009.
Format: oil painting.
Creator: Frank Clifford Ashford.
An oil painting of former President Calvin Coolidge in Indian headdress as Wamblee-Tokah. The headdress and name was given to Coolidge by Sioux leaders Chief Chauncey Yellow Robe and Rosebud Yellow… -
Portrait of Charles Ammi Cutter
Identifier: ART017.
Format: Oil.
Creator: William Henry Warren Bicknell.
An oil painting of Charles Ammi Cutter, well known Library Systemizer and First Librarian of Forbes Library, 1894-1903. Signed and dated u.r.? 350.00. Displayed in the Forbes Library Reference Room,… -
Landscape and cattle
Identifier: ART020.
Format: Oil on canvas.
Creator: Henry Collins Bispham.
An oil painting of cattle, with a lake, trees and mountains in the backdrop. Painted on canvas. Hung in the reading room, Forbes Library. Northampton, MA.
Henry Collins… -
Classical landscape (Orpheus and Eurydice)
Identifier: ART022.
Format: Oil on linen/masonite. Gilt frame.
An oil painting illustrating the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. A river and several classically dressed figures are in foreground with mountains in distance. Oil on linen / masonite, unsigned and… -
Portrait of Asahel Pomeroy
Identifier: ART036.
Format: Oil.
Creator: Ralph Earle.
An oil painting of Asahel Pomeroy seated on chair, frontal view; finger on map on table.
Displayed in the Forbes Library Reference Room, Northampton, MA.
Ralph Earl
Ralph Earl… -
Mississippi Steamboat
Identifier: ART038.
Format: Oil painting.
Creator: George F. Fuller.
Oil painting of 2 Mississippi steamboats on river at night with small raft foreground.
Hung in the Forbes Library Arts and Music Department, Northampton, MA.
The work of nationally known… -
Portrait of Martha Hunt Henshaw (1755-1842)
Identifier: ART041.
Format: Oil.
Creator: Chester Harding.
An oil painting of a portrait of Martha Hunt Henshaw wearing lace cap and black dress with lace at neck.
oil unsigned and undated
Chester Harding
Prominent portrait painted Chester… -
Portrait of Issac Chapman Bates (1780-1845)
Identifier: ART042.
Format: Oil on wood panel.
Creator: Chester Harding.
An oil painting on wood of Issac Chapman Bates on wood
oil on wood panel unsigned and undated
Isaac C. Bates (1779-1845) was a prominent attorney who settled in Northampton in 1805. Within… -
Portrait of Judge Samuel Henshaw (1744-1809)
Identifier: ART043.
Format: Oil.
Creator: Chester Harding.
An oil painting of Judge Samuel Henshaw (1744-1809)
oil unsigned and undated
This portrait is a Harding oil portrait (27" x 22 1/2") of Martha Bates' father, Judge Samuel Henshaw… -
Portrait of Martha Henshaw Bates (1783-1874)
Identifier: ART044.
Format: Oil on wood panel.
Creator: Chester Harding.
An oil painting on wood of Martha Henshaw Bates wearing a black dress with open lace neckline and small white cap.
oil on wood panel unsigned and undated
Senator Bates' wife, Martha… -
Evening in Dordrecht Harbor
Identifier: ART056.
Format: Oil.
Creator: George Herbert McCord.
Oil painting of boats in harbor at sunset; church tower of town in background
oil painting signed and dated l.l.
George Herbert McCord
American landscape painter George H. McCord was born… -
Gardener's Globe
Identifier: ART085.
Format: Oil on wood.
Creator: Robin Freedenfeld.
painting of hand holding a globe that reflects flower garden with path in middle. -
An Higher View
Identifier: ART123.
Format: Oil on canvas.
Creator: Lewis Bryden.
An oil painting of the Connecticut river valley.
Displayed in the Forbes Library Reference Room, Northampton, MA. -
Deerfield Power
Identifier: ART124.
Format: Oil on Mi-Tientes.
Creator: David Brewster.
An oil painting, painted with broad, stylized strokes, of a power plant on the Deerfield River.
Displayed in the Forbes Library Reference Room, Northampton, MA.