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![]() | The Falls of Niagra Circa 1820 Farnsworth Art Museum Rockland, ME | GA | Anonymous | |
![]() | The Great Horseshoe Fall, Niagara 1820 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
The Hunter, A Self-Portrait 1837 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | Anonymous | ||
![]() | The Prairie on Fire 1827 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | ![]() Ownership History: The artist; sold for $100 to Samuel G. Goodrich (1793–1860), Boston, Mass., 1828; to Private Collection, Cambridge, Mass.; by descent in family for three generations; to Private Collection, Kennebunkport, Maine; consigned to Vose Galleries, Boston; to Private Collection, Mass.; sold to Menconi & Schoelkopf Fine Art, New York, N.Y. | GA | Anonymous |
![]() | View Near Springfield, Massachusetts 1819 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | ![]() st houses, rolling hills and cultivated fields, View Near Springfield, Massachusetts could well have been conceived as a companion piece for the Brooklyn Museum canvas. Certainly, both project an image of an idyllic land, an arcadia, that expresses the ideals of Jeffersonian America and speaks eloquently of the promise of the young Republic. | GA | Anonymous |
![]() | View of Springfield on the Connecticut River 1819 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | ![]() Alvan Fisher’s bucolic view of Springfield, Massachusetts, from across the Connecticut River typifies the kind of landscapes that were popular in the period. It describes a specific locale—note the steepled First Church on the far bank—using the well-known artistic vocabulary of the “Claudian” landscape. This compositional format, based on... | GA | Anonymous |
- Alvan Fisher