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Spring Landscape

ca. 1853–56
Not on view
This spring landscape is part of a series typifying the seasons and was presumably painted in the last years of the artist’s life. It is one of his most ambitious pictures and the last one of importance. It is a wide-angled panoramic view and Doughty has made an effort to give variety to the broad expanse of countryside. The farm, with people and animals in the sunlit middle distance, and the group of trees, shadowed below and brightly lit at the top, reveal a true gift for affectionate rendering of carefully observed minor detail.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Spring Landscape
  • Artist: Thomas Doughty (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1793–1856 New York)
  • Date: ca. 1853–56
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 44 x 62 in. (111.8 x 157.5 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of George F. Shelton and Mrs. F. H. Markoe, in memory of their father, Theodore B. Shelton, 1917
  • Object Number: 17.66
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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