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Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Bott, Emil 1827-1908  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Westmoreland Museum of Art 221 North Main Street Greensburg Pennsylvania 15601 Accession Number: 81.26
Date:
1854
Notes:
Chew, Paul A., ed., "Southwestern Pennsylvania Painters: 1800-1945," Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pa., 1981.
Westmoreland Museum of Art, 1988.
Southwestern Pennsylvania Painters: Collection of Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA, 1989, no. 17.
Image on file.
Antiques (Nov. 1983): pg. 990.
Exh. Cat., "Waters of America," Historic New Orleans Collection & New Orleans Museum of Art, 1984, pg. 55.
Southwestern Pennsylvania Painters: Collection of Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA, 1989, pg. 1.
(Lower left:) E. Bott 1854 signed
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Summary:
View looking down across a lush green valley lined with rolling hills that gently slope down toward the Beaver River and a waterfall. The river bank is dotted with houses and a church. In the middle ground a few tiny figures are visible along a dirt road.
Topic:
Landscape--Pennsylvania--Beaver Falls  Search this
Landscape--Waterfall  Search this
Landscape--River--Beaver River  Search this
Architecture exterior--Domestic--House  Search this
Architecture exterior--Religious--Church  Search this
Control number:
IAP 86970007
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_236496