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Alvan Fisher
[American Painter, 1792-1863]
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
The Prairie on Fire
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
View Near Springfield, Massachusetts, 1819
Alvan Fisher at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Scene with Dogs, 1836
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, Massachusetts NEW!
Roadside Meeting
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
4 paintings online
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
The White Pony, 1838
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
New-York Historical Society
Niagara: The American Falls, ca.1821
Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts
1 work online: View of Salem from Gallows Hill (row 6/image 3). Click on the little "i" on the detail images to bring up information about the works.
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York
Fishing in New Hampshire, 1852
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York
Hunters in a Landscape, ca.1830
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York
Hunters in a Stream with Dog, ca.1830
Alvan Fisher at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
The Huntington Library, California
Virtual Museum of Canada
The Great Horseshoe Fall, Niagara, 1820
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Alvan Fisher in the Art Renewal Center
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Miscellaneous Sites:
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 Edition
Complete article, now in the public domain. Obviously, some facts may have changed since 1911.
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