1900
oil
panel
From the collection of Walters Art Museum
Boston Street Scene (Boston Common) is a 1900 oil by Edward Mitchell Bannister, a American Impressionism work, held at Walters Art Museum.
This painting shows a city street scene, with a street running down the center. On the left are tall buildings, and on the right are trees and people. The colors are muted, with lots of browns and grays. In the foreground, there's a street with people and horses. The buildings on the left have many windows and chimneys. The sky above is gray and cloudy. If you like this painting, you might also like works by artist Edward Mitchell Bannister.
Boston Street Scene (Boston Common) is an 1898–1899 oil painting by African-American artist Edward Mitchell Bannister, made during a visit to Boston, Massachusetts.
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Bannister made the painting during a visit to Boston in the 1890s. The painting was bought in 2002 by the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
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The small oil-on-canvas work measures 8 in × 5.5 in (20 cm × 14 cm). It depicts a street scene on the edge of Boston Common, perhaps Beacon Street. Bannister uses the diagonal edge of the sidewalk beside the park to draw the eye into the painting, with two women walking with a baby in a stroller in the right foreground. Traffic is light on the street to the left, just a few horse-drawn carriages, and more people walking on the other side of the street, past buildings of five or more floors. In contrast to his usual paintings of New England landscapes in a realistic manner with a muted natural…
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Edward Mitchell Bannister (November 2, 1828 – January 9, 1901) was a Canadian–American oil painter of the American Barbizon school.
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