Object number1935.4
Rocks and Pines
Datec. 1863/64
Artist
Worthington Whittredge
(American, 1820-1910)
CultureAmerican
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 26 3/4 x 19 11/16 in. (68 x 50 cm)
Framed: 32 11/16 x 26 3/8 x 3 9/16 in. (83 x 67 x 9 cm)
Framed: 32 11/16 x 26 3/8 x 3 9/16 in. (83 x 67 x 9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Corbett, class of 1932
On View
Not on viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
SignedSigned lower right: Whittredge
BibliographyFlad, Harvey K. “Nineteenth-century Artists in the Shawangunks.” Hudson River Valley Review, Hudson River Valley Institute, vol. 31, no. 16 (Autumn 2014), p. 103, no. 8;
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. 88;
Humanzing Landscapes: Geography, Culture, and the Magoon Collection. Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 2000, p. 53 Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryAll Seasons and Every Light, Vassar College Art Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, October 14 - December 16, 1983;The Humanizing Landscapes: Geography, Culture and the Magoon Collection, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, October 5 - December 20, 2000
Label TextWorthington Whittredge was studying art in Europe when collector and future trustee of the college Elias Magoon was purchasing works by Frederic Church and other Hudson River School painters in the mid-1850s. Thus, Magoon did not purchase any paintings by this Ohio-born artist trained in the traditions of the Düsseldorf Academy, where professors and students painted the outdoors with rigorous attention to detail. In 1859, Whittredge ventured to New York, joining Church, Sanford Robinson Gifford, and others at the Tenth Street art studios in Manhattan, and sketching in the "primitive woods" (as he put it) of New York and New England. A few years later he painted this mountain ledge, bringing his meticulous eye to bear on the Shawangunk Ridge near New Paltz, New York.
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
1873-1879
Culture: American
