Object number1864.1.61
The Upper Palisades
Date1860
Artist
Charles Herbert Moore
(American, 1840-1930)
CultureAmerican
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 11 13/16 x 20 1/16 in. (30 x 51 cm)
Framed: 16 1/8 x 24 13/16 x 2 3/8 in. (41 x 63 x 6 cm)
Framed: 16 1/8 x 24 13/16 x 2 3/8 in. (41 x 63 x 6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Matthew Vassar
On View
On viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
SignedInitialed lower left: C. H. M.
InscribedBy artist, lower left: 1860
BibliographyBerry, Ian and Tom Lewis. Lives of the Hudson. Munich; New York: DelMonico Books; Prestel, 2010, pp. 12 - 13;
Foshay, Ella M., and Sally Mills. All Seasons and Every Light: Nineteenth Century American Landscapes from the Collection of Elias Lyman Magoon. Poughkeepsie, N.Y: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1983, p. 78;
Henshaw, Robert E. Environmental History of the Hudson River. Albany: The State University of New York Press, 2011, p. 297, fig. 20.2; ProvenanceCollections: Elias MagoonVassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryHumanizing Landscapes: Geography, Culture and the Magoon Collection, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, October 5 - December 20, 2000;All Seasons and Every Light, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, October 14 - December 16, 1983;
The Hudson River, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, July 2009 - March 2010;
Nature in America: Taming the Landscape, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, June 29 - August 26, 2012
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