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Hazy silver sunlight breaks through a cloud-filled blue-grey sky to illuminate green-grey waves breaking onto a wet beach that fills the lower half of this oil painting. Three white seagulls wheel overhead and a distant ship on the horizon sails from left to right.

On the Coast of New Jersey by William Trost Richards

Portrait of a slender, pale-skinned young woman with blue eyes. She has shoulder-length copper-red hair and wears a white gown with grey and white striped sleeves belted at the waist. She stands before a brocaded ivory curtain.

Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl by James McNeill Whistler

A man on an ivory white horse rides away from us on a rugged mountain path heading toward a forest of green trees. He wears a dark blue tunic and pointed brown hat and the scene is strongly lit from the left.

What’s Ahead for A Long Look?

Looking down the length of a three-story atrium viewed from the second floor. It is lit by skylights and large hanging lights and the floor is patterned with a geometric white and black pattern. The mezzanines on either side and above us are filled with display cases bathed in amber light.

American Art Museum Finale

Oil painting of puffy clouds floating over the grey-green rooftops of three buildings spread across the bottom of the canvas and angled to our left. Only their upper walls, roofs, and chimneys are visible and they are bathed with warm light from that direction.

Floating Clouds by Hisako Hibi

Three paintings are cropped into horizontal bars with the word 150 in white text superimposed over the middle image.

Happy Anniversary, Impressionism!

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