The Giant Oak

Samuel Chamberlain

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This colorful, loosely painted, vertically oriented canvas represents flags of various nations (an Allied flag celebration) on New York's Fifth Avenue in October of 1918. The spires of Saint Patrick's Cathedral are visible in the background.
This black and white photograph represents apartments in San Francisco. Laundry hangs in front of the apartments. There are stairs leading from the bottom center to the center right. The white laundry on the clotheslines makes two diagonals, one begins in the bottom of the frame and extends up the right. The other begins in the top right corner of the bottom left and extends up and to the left. In the background are large apartment buildings iwth the highest point in the top right.
This watercolor on paper represents a stylized view of the skyline of Birmingham. The viewer looks toward downtown through a residential neighborhood of blocky houses at odd angles (five total with red, green, and gray roofs).
America of Salem, Attributed to Michele Felice Cornè, watercolor on paper