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

4. 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
Medium or Technique
Hanging scroll; ink, color, gold, and mica on silk

5. 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

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?
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

8. 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

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

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?
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

12. 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

13. 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 cm (102 1/2 x 67 1/8 in.)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Paintings
Accession Number
75.2

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?
A Pic Nick in the Woods of New England
about 1855
Jerome B. Thompson, American, 1814–1886
Dimensions
x cm (40 7/8 x 62 in.)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Paintings
Accession Number
46.852

16. 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

17. What is going on in this image?
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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
MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE
Watercolor over graphite pencil on paper

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?
\New York Harbor     Date: about 1855
Related People:
By: Fitz Henry Lane
American, 1804–1865
Object Number: 

20. 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:

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

22. Lesson 6

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

24. 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:

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

26. Lesson 7

27. What is going on in this image?
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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

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

29. What is going on in this image?
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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