Evening at the Lock, Napanoch, New York

1893
Not on view
In 1893, the year after he returned from his last visit to Giverny, Robinson taught plein-air painting at Napanoch, New York, in the Shawangunk Mountains, and chronicled that still-rural region in several canvases. Here, he commemorated an old canal that used to facilitate the transport of coal from Pennsylvania to New York City but had been rendered obsolete by more efficient railroad lines. In contrast to the grandiloquent responses to the same region by the earlier Hudson River School painters, Robinson’s subtle view demonstrates the American Impressionists’ determination to represent the commonplace.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Evening at the Lock, Napanoch, New York
  • Artist: Theodore Robinson (1852–1896)
  • Date: 1893
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 22 x 32 in. (55.9 x 81.3 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of The Manoogian Foundation, 2011
  • Object Number: 2011.118
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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