<I>At "Smith's Palace," Narragansett Bay</I>
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1881
name: label: Created by
content: Edward Mitchell Bannister, Canadian, 1828 - 1901
notes: label: Description
content: An impressionist oil painting titled, At "Smith's Palace," Narragansett Bay, by Edward M. Bannister. The painting depicts a pastoral landscape that features a copse of tall, dark, leafy trees just left of center. Directly in front of the trees is a small pond. In the background, on the right, is a white house with a red chimney, a small, detached building with a red roof, both sitting on a yellow field. Behind the buildings is a dense patch of trees. The scene is set against a cloudy sky with contrasting bright and dark clouds. In the foreground is dark green brush. The painting is signed in the bottom right; painted in dark green oil paint that reads [E. M. Bannister]. The painting is housed in a heavy gilt frame with ornamentation in a floral motif.
place: label: Place depicted
content: Washington County, Rhode Island, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Rural life
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2023.117.1
objectType: label: Type
content: oil paintings
label: Type
content: landscapes (representations)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No known copyright restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: oil paint and varnish on linen (material) canvas with wood , metal and Fome-Cor (TM)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (Framed): 35 1/4 × 43 1/2 × 3 9/16 in. (89.6 × 110.5 × 9 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 22 × 30 in. (55.9 × 76.2 cm)