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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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The Trout Pool

1870
oil on canvas
36 x 27 1/8 in. (91.4 x 68.9 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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The Camp Meeting

1874
oil on canvas
16 x 40 11/16 in. (40.6 x 103.3 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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The Brook In The Woods

ca. 1885–86
oil on canvas
28 x 36 in. (71.1 x 91.4 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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The Birches Of The Catskills

ca. 1875
oil on canvas mounted on paperboard
13 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. (33.5 x 19.8 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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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,...
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The Baptism

1868
oil on canvas
19 x 27 in. (48.3 x 68.6 cm) Framed: 28 1/4 x 36 1/8 x 3 in.

Detroit Institute of Arts

Detroit, MI

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The Amphitheatre Of Tusculum And Albano Mountains, Rome

1860
oil on canvas
24 x 40 in. (61.0 x 101.6 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
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...
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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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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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Rocky Shore

1867
oil on canvas
13 7/8 x 20 1/4 in. (35.2 x 51.4 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

notes
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...
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