The Oxbow: After Church, After Cole, Flooded (Flooded River for the Matriarchs E. & A. Mongan), Green Light

Artist:: Stephen Hannock (American, born Albany, New York 1951)

Date:: 2000

Medium:: Acrylic, alkyd and oil glazes with collage elements on canvas

Dimensions:: 96 x 144 in. (243.8 x 365.8 cm)

Classification:: Paintings

Credit Line:: Purchase, Moore Capital Management Inc. Gift, 2001

Accession Number:: 2001.153

Not on view

Hannock's mural-size painting is a contemporary interpretation of the Connecticut River scene made famous by Thomas Cole's View from Mount Holyoke Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm-The Oxbow (1836; The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Hannock emphasizes the vista's grandeur while at the same time personalizing it with an overlay of script referring to people, places, and events from his life. In addition to Cole, the painting's title pays homage to the nineteenth-century artist Frederick Church and to two of Hannock's early mentors, Elizabeth and Agnes Mongan, who were connected to the museums at Harvard and Smith College.-

#1849. The Oxbow: After Church, After Cole, Flooded (Flooded River for the Matriarchs E. & A. Mongan), Green Light

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the artist, New York (2000–2001; sold through James Graham & Sons, New York, to MMA)

James Graham & Sons, New York. "Stephen Hannock," April 8–May 6, 2000, no catalogue.

Laramie. University of Wyoming Art Museum. "Landscape 2000," June 10–December 23, 2000, unnumbered cat. (p. 10).

Sabine Rewald in "Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2000-2001." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 59 (Fall 2001), p. 70, ill. (color).

Jason Rosenfeld. Stephen Hannock. Exh. cat., McKenzie Fine Art, Inc. New York, 2002, ill. p. 7 (color).

Martha Hoppin. "Variations on a Theme: The Oxbow." Stephen Hannock. Manchester, Vt., 2009, pp. 20–23, ill. (overall and detail, color) and cover (detail, color), identifies this painting as the largest of the artist's Oxbow theme.

Kathryn Calley Galitz. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Masterpiece Paintings. New York, 2016, p. 535, ill. (color), colorpl. 496.

Timelines
The United States and Canada, 1900 A.D.–present

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings
"Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2000–2001": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 59, no. 2 (Fall, 2001)

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Modern and Contemporary Art (13,578)

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Vortex at Dawn: Collapsed

Artist: Stephen Hannock (American, born Albany, New York 1951) Date: 1992 Medium: Polished oil on canvas, mounted on board Accession: 1992.300 On view in:Not on view

Henry in the Hamptons

Artist: Stephen Hannock (American, born Albany, New York 1951) Date: 1992 Medium: Oil on instant print and wood panel Accession: 2016.716.1 On view in:Not on view

Prelimiary Composition for The Oxbow: After Church, After Cole, Flooded (Flooded River for the Matriarchs E. & A. Mongan), Green Light

Artist: Stephen Hannock (American, born Albany, New York 1951) Date: 1993 Medium: Graphite and white pencil on tracing paper Accession: 2001.459.3 On view in:Not on view

Final Composition for The Oxbow: After Church, After Cole, Flooded (Flooded River for the Matriarchs E. & A. Mongan), Green Light

Artist: Stephen Hannock (American, born Albany, New York 1951) Date: 1993 Medium: Ink and white pencil on tracing paper Accession: 2001.459.2 On view in:Not on view

Preliminary composition for The Oxbow: After Church, After Cole, Flooded (Flooded River for the Matriarchs E. & A. Mongan), Green Light

Artist: Stephen Hannock (American, born Albany, New York 1951) Date: 1993 Medium: Ink and colored pencil on tracing paper Accession: 2001.459.1 On view in:Not on view