James McDougal Hart

James McDougal Hart (May 10, 1828 – October 24, 1901), was a Scottish-born American landscape and cattle painter of... Read more
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Picnic on the Hudson

1854
oil on canvas
15 3/8 x 55 11/16 in. (39 x 141.5 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

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Sunday Afternoon, Berkshire County, Mass.

1857
oil on canvas
27.31 x 46.36 cm (10 3/4 x 18 1/4 in.) framed: 38.1 x 57.15 x 5.08 cm (15 x 22 1/2 x 2 in.)

Harvard University Art Museums

Cambridge, MA

Hart, James McDougal GA
Under the Elms

1872
oil on canvas
44 x 33 inches

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

St. Johnsbury, VT

Hart, James McDougalnotes
Under the Elms is characteristic of Hart's work after the Civil War. Where he favored larger-scale depictions of unexplored wilderness in his earlier work, his later paintings are often more tranquil and refined.
GA
Village Scene near Albany, New York

1850
oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 42 1/8 in. (76.5 x 107.0 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Hart, James McDougalnotes
This image shows a small town to the west of James M. Hart’s home in Albany, New York. He preferred to paint intimate views of country life, rather than dramatic vistas of the wilderness, to show that man and nature could coexist in peace. In Village Scene, the comforting view of farm life, with its children, grazing cows, and picturesque...
GA
Among Friends

1876
oil on canvas
Height: 162.56 cm (64 in.), Width: 106.68 cm (42 in.)

Private collection: Robert P. Coggins

Marietta, GA

Hart, James McDougal GA
Cattle and Landscape

1867
oil on canvas
19 13/16 x 29 13/16 in. (50.4 x 75.7 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Hart, James McDougal GA
Hazy Morning

1867
oil on canvas
Height: 23.5 cm (9.25 in.), Width: 46.36 cm (18.25 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

Hart, James McDougal GA
Landscape with Cattle

1872
oil on canvas
20 1/4 x 34 1/2 inches

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

St. Johnsbury, VT

Hart, James McDougalnotes
This quiet idyll is typical of the post-Civil War paintings of James Hart. A herd of cattle, trailing into the distance at the left, leads the viewer's eye from the foreground back to the rural village in the distance in a lyric style and nostalgic sensibility that evoke the approaches of the French Barbizon painters of mid-century.
GA
Marine and Cattle

1884
oil on canvas
19 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

St. Johnsbury, VT

Hart, James McDougalnotes
This composition by James M. Hart illustrates how the artist's pastoral art developed during his later career. The paintings soft, tonal brushwork and expansive space almost diametrically oppose the crisp specificity of his early work.
GA
Misty Morning on Racket Lake

oil on canvas
Height: 54.61 cm (21.5 in.), Width: 90.17 cm (35.5 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

Hart, James McDougal GA
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