Summer Woodlands
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."
Artwork Details
- 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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