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View Near Brunnen On Lake Lucerne

1857
oil on canvas
32 13/16 x 53 9/16 in. (83.3 x 136 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

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North Rhine-Westphalia/Germany

1853
oil on canvas
40 3/4 x 52 1/2 in. (103.5 x 133.4 cm)

Cincinnati Art Museum

Cincinnati, OH

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Landscape With Haywain

1861
oil on canvas
Framed - h:65.50 w:103.00 d:12.50 cm (h:25 3/4 w:40 1/2 d:4 7/8 inches) Unframed - h:40.20 w:78.00 cm (h:15 13/16 w:30 11/16 inches)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, OH

notes
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...
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Graves Of Travellers, Fort Kearny, Nebraska

1866
oil on paper mounted on canvas
Unframed - h:18.80 w:56.50 cm (h:7 3/8 w:22 3/16 inches)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, OH

notes
In the foreground appear the graves of settlers who died on the difficult journey to the American West. This oil sketch was made by the artist on an expedition to the Rocky Mountains and later formed the basis of a painting executed in New York (now in the G. W. V. Smith Art Museum, Springfield, Mass.).
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A Sheep Cote On Lake Albano

1859
oil on canvas
29.7 x 38.1 cm (11 11/16 x 15 in.)

Harvard University Art Museums

Cambridge, MA

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Summer Pastorale (View Of Kallenfels)

1853
oil on canvas
38 3/4 x 32 3/8 in. 46 x 39 1/4 in. (framed)

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Indianapolis, IN

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Lake Shawangunk

1863
oil on canvas
12 x 23 1/2 in. 20 1/2 x 30 7/8 in. (framed)

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Indianapolis, IN

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Interior Of A Westphalian Cottage

1852
oil on canvas
27 5/8 x 19 7/8 in. (70.2 x 50.4 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Noon In The Orchard

1900
oil on canvas
18 1/4 x 30 1/4 in. (46.3 x 76.8 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Seconnet Point, Rhode Island

ca. 1880
oil on canvas
13 5/8 x 20 7/8 in. (34.7 x 53.0 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
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...
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