This painting depicts a white house in a lush green setting. The house has dark windows and a red chimney, partially obscured by trees that cast dappled shadows on the house's facade. The front door appears to be open. A light brown path runs parallel to the house at the bottom of the image, and small gray steps lead up the grass towards the house. The color palette includes vibrant greens for the foliage and a light blue for the sky behind the house. The brushstrokes are loose and impressionistic, creating a soft and textured appearance in the trees, grass, and building.
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Roadside Cottage

Dennis Miller Bunker (American, 1861 - 1890)

1889

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 63.7 x 76.2 cm (25 1/16 x 30 in.) ; framed: 97.16 × 106.05 × 4.45 cm (38 1/4 × 41 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Raymond J. and Margaret Horowitz
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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