Worthington Whittredge

Thomas Worthington Whittredge (May 22, 1820 – February 25, 1910) was an American artist of the Hudson River School. Whittredge... Read more
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A Home By The Seaside

circa 1872
Oil on canvas
20 x 31 1/16 in. (50.8 x 79 cm)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles, CA

Whittredge, Worthington Unrated
Forest Interior

1882
oil on canvas
69.5 x 70.2 cm (27 3/8 x 27 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, IL

Whittredge, Worthington Unrated
Crow's Nest

1848
oil on canvas
39 3/4 x 56 in (101.0 x 142.2 cm) Framed: 51 7/8 x 68 5/16 x 3 3/8 in.

Detroit Institute of Arts

Detroit, MI

Whittredge, Worthington Unrated
Evening In The Woods

1876
oil on canvas
42 5/16 x 36 1/8 in. (107.5 x 91.7 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Whittredge, Worthington Unrated
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

Whittredge, Worthington Unrated
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.

Whittredge, Worthingtonnotes
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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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

Whittredge, Worthington Unrated
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

Whittredge, Worthington Unrated
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

Whittredge, Worthington Unrated
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.

Whittredge, Worthingtonnotes
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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