Summer Woodlands

ca. 1870s

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 756

Hart Beers, a young widowed mother, began painting in an effort to become financially independent. Part of an artistic family, she spent summers sketching in the Hudson Valley and New England. This intimate study was likely painted outdoors, as suggested by its small size and rapid brushwork. Although her brothers, landscape painters James and William Hart, discouraged Beers from forays into demanding plein-air work, she took up the challenge, "tramp[ing] on after them many a weary mile through mud and wet."

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Title: Summer Woodlands
Artist: Julie Hart Beers (American, 1835–1913)
Date: ca. 1870s
Medium: Oil on paper mounted to board
Dimensions: 11 3/4 × 7 3/4 in. (29.8 × 19.7 cm)
Credit Line: The Morse Family Foundation Fund, 2021
Object Number: 2021.157
Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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