Ducks in the Woods
Julie Hart Beers American
One of America’s first professional woman landscape painters, Hart Beers developed a reputation for highly detailed forest views. Although the precise location of this quiet and contemplative landscape is unknown, it was likely inspired by on-the-spot sketches executed in New Jersey or upstate New York. Hart Beers’s fidelity to nature reveals the influence of the English critic John Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites, whose meticulous landscapes challenged the romanticized aesthetics of the so-called Hudson River School.
#4030. Ducks in the Woods
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