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View of Springfield on the Connecticut River

1819
Oil on canvas
31 5/8 x 43 11/16 in. (80.4 x 111 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

notes
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...
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A Calm Watering Place--Extensive and Boundless Scene with Cattle

1816
Oil on panel
Unframed - h:78.00 w:102.20 cm (h:30 11/16 w:40 3/16 inches)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, OH

notes
In this prime example of Fisher’s early rural pictures, a ferry delivers two aristocratic women and their belongings to the shore, as a herd of cattle rests in the foreground. Originally thought to depict the town of Northumberland, Pennsylvania, records of the artist’s travels suggest the painting more likely represents an area of New England....
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The Prairie on Fire

1827
oil on canvas
61 x 83.8 cm (24 x 33 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, IL

notes
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.
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View Near Springfield, Massachusetts

1819
oil on canvas
32 X 44" (81.28 x 111. 76 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

notes
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.
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Scene with Dogs (From McGuire Scrapbook)

1836
Graphite on off-white woven paper
4 11/16 x 7 3/16 in. (11.9 x 18.3 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Portrait of a Gentleman

about 1840
oil on canvas
86.36 x 68.9 cm (34 x 27 1/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Portrait of a Lady

about 1840
oil on canvas
86.68 x 68.58 cm (34 1/8 x 27 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Landscape with Cows

1816
Oil on panel
71.12 x 101.92 cm (28 x 40 1/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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The Hunter, A Self-Portrait

1837
Watercolor over graphite on paper
Sheet: 33.02 x 24.76 cm (13 x 9 3/4 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Lake in the Mountains with Hunters

1857
oil on canvas
35.56 x 43.5 cm (14 x 17 1/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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