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The image depicts a landscape of a farm with a grain elevator. Besides it on the lower bottom of the image has small figures of men and horses.

This piece depicts a scene of the "Hall of Sciences" at the 1933 Chicago Fair.

Landscape attributed to Hudson River school of painting. There are trees in the foreground, a large mountain in the background, a river splits the canvas in half, and there is a person in the foreground. Settlements and boats are small but visible.

Clare Smith was a printmaker who lived and worked in Galesburg, IL. After raising a family, she decided to go back to school and enrolled at Knox College, earning degrees in Art and French. After graduating she worked at the famous printshop Atelier…

George Rickey was the Artist in Residence at Knox College from 1940-1941. It was then that he completed this painting as a study for the mural The Offer of Education. Though Rickey was considered American he lived in and was educated in Europe. …

West’s painting depicts the seventeen rustic structures of the settlement, which housed about 175 people and included a church and school. Her painting contains topographic inaccuracies and certain buildings are more intricately depicted than others,…

Midnight Race on the Mississippi hows two racing steamboats, the Memphis and the James Howard. Currier & Ives prints often depicted steamboats and popular events, which this race certainly was. This print would have been widely distributed just…

A farmer and his two horses farming under the harvest moon.

Dark greenery forms a picturesque frame around the landscape, which contains a view of a steamboat on the Mississippi River. On the opposite bank is the city of Nauvoo, an historic curiosity in Illinois, which was established in 1839 by Mormon…

The image depicts a man and woman working in the field.