YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.- Officials from The Butler Institute of American Art have announced that the museum has acquired a master work by American painter James Longacre Wood (c. 1863-1938) titled “Mumble the Peg.” Painted in 1892, a full twenty years after Winslow Homer (1836-1910) painted “Snap the Whip.” (Homer’s famed genre work of boys playing outside a one-room school house, is an iconic painting that has been the centerpiece of the Butler’s collection since the Institute’s founding in 1919.) “Mumble the Peg” was previously owned by the late Sherman Lee (1918-2008), longtime director of The Cleveland Museum of Art (Ohio). According to Butler Director and Chief Curator, Dr. Louis Zona, “This painting is a most wonderful addition the museum’s prestigious collection. It is a complement to ‘Snap the Whip,’ painted in 1872 before Wood’s painting, and both works