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[[File:Edward Mitchell Bannister - Boston Street Scene (Boston Common) - Walters 372766.jpg|thumb|[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]], ''Boston Street Scene (Boston Common)'', 1898-1899, [[Walters Art Museum]] ]]
'''''Boston Street Scene (Boston Common)''''' is a 1898-1899 oil painting by African-American artist [[Edward Mitchell Bannister]], made during a visit to [[Boston, Massachussetts]].
Bannister was born in [[Saint Andrews, New Brunswick]] in 1828. His father was a black man from [[Barbados]], and his mother was a white Scottish-Canadian. He worked as a ship's cook, and settled in Boston in the 1850s, where he became a barber. In 1857 married the successful hairdresser [[Christiana Carteaux Bannister]]. His wife encouraged his artistic ambitions, and he shared a studio with [[Edwin Lord Weeks]]. He won the bronze medal for first place at the [[Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition]] in 1876. The Bannisters had moved to [[Providence, Rhode Island]] in 1869, where he was one of the founders of [[Providence Art Club]].
Bannister made the painting during a visit to Boston in the 1890s. The small oil-on-canvas work measures . 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 [[Realism|realistic]] manner with a muted natural palette, similar to the French [[Barbizon school]], this work adopts a much brighter, almost [[Fauvist]], palette of yellows, pinks, reds, greens and blues, and a loose [[Impressionist]] style.
The painting was bought in 2002 by the [[Walters Art Museum]], Baltimore.
==References==
* [https://ift.tt/3mRvdnn ''Boston Street Scene (Boston Common)''], Walters Art Museum
* [https://ift.tt/2KywAKT ''Boston Street Scene''], Dr Richard Stemp
[[Category:1899 paintings]]
[[Category:American paintings]]
[[Category:Boston]]
[[Category:Collection of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore]]
'''''Boston Street Scene (Boston Common)''''' is a 1898-1899 oil painting by African-American artist [[Edward Mitchell Bannister]], made during a visit to [[Boston, Massachussetts]].
Bannister was born in [[Saint Andrews, New Brunswick]] in 1828. His father was a black man from [[Barbados]], and his mother was a white Scottish-Canadian. He worked as a ship's cook, and settled in Boston in the 1850s, where he became a barber. In 1857 married the successful hairdresser [[Christiana Carteaux Bannister]]. His wife encouraged his artistic ambitions, and he shared a studio with [[Edwin Lord Weeks]]. He won the bronze medal for first place at the [[Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition]] in 1876. The Bannisters had moved to [[Providence, Rhode Island]] in 1869, where he was one of the founders of [[Providence Art Club]].
Bannister made the painting during a visit to Boston in the 1890s. The small oil-on-canvas work measures . 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 [[Realism|realistic]] manner with a muted natural palette, similar to the French [[Barbizon school]], this work adopts a much brighter, almost [[Fauvist]], palette of yellows, pinks, reds, greens and blues, and a loose [[Impressionist]] style.
The painting was bought in 2002 by the [[Walters Art Museum]], Baltimore.
==References==
* [https://ift.tt/3mRvdnn ''Boston Street Scene (Boston Common)''], Walters Art Museum
* [https://ift.tt/2KywAKT ''Boston Street Scene''], Dr Richard Stemp
[[Category:1899 paintings]]
[[Category:American paintings]]
[[Category:Boston]]
[[Category:Collection of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore]]
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