This web exhibition from the Smithsonian's American Art Museum features the work of painter George Ault (1891-1948). Ault's "precise yet eerie pictures" chronicle the 1940s, a time when the United States was struggling to get out of the Great Depression and fighting World War II. Ault's subject matter is primarily rural, such as Brook in the Mountains, 1945, a depiction of a small waterfall near...