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![]() | Landscape With Haywain 1861 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | ![]() Painted during the first year of the Civil War, this idyllic view of a farm near Dobb's Ferry, New York, proclaimed to Northern viewers the success of an agricultural system in which farmers worked their own land. The American flag hanging beside the homestead subtly alludes to the war. Such a scene was thus a critique of Southern slavery. Yet the... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Noon In The Orchard 1900 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | North Rhine-Westphalia/Germany 1853 Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati, OH | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Rocky Shore 1867 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | ![]() An important figure in the second generation of Hudson River School painters, Whittredge was a friend and sketching companion of several of the artists on view here, including Sanford Gifford, William Haseltine, and Jervis McEentee. In this small coastal scene, probably of Newport, Rhode Island, Whittredge experimented with the broad, richly textured... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Seconnet Point, Rhode Island ca. 1880 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() Worthington Whittredge traveled to Newport, Rhode Island, in the fall of 1877. He was inspired by the French painter Charles-Francois Daubigny. One of the forerunners of impressionism, Daubigny emphasized the effects of light and color on the landscape (Janson, Worthington Whittredge, 1989). In this painting, Whittredge used bright, clean colors and... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Summer Pastorale (View Of Kallenfels) 1853 Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, IN | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | The Amphitheatre Of Tusculum And Albano Mountains, Rome 1860 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() Worthington Whittredge was among many American artists who traveled to Europe in the nineteenth century. The ancient culture of Italy offered a poignant tale of faded glory that contrasted sharply with America's rise to economic and political power. Whittredge showed the ruins of the amphitheatre at Tusculum in the harsh light of day. Indolent... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | The Baptism 1868 Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | The Birches Of The Catskills ca. 1875 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() Worthington Whittredge found it difficult to adjust to painting the New England landscape after almost ten years abroad. He described the forests as “a mass of decaying logs and tangled brush wood” that were completely different from the “well-ordered” European views he was used to. (The Autobiography of Worthington Whittredge, 1942,... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | The Brook In The Woods ca. 1885–86 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous |
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