Exchange: The Adirondacks

137 Items in this Learning Collection

Glen Lyon Falls

A waterfall takes up the bottom half of the image with trees and hills behind a body of water.

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Two Cows

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Vachere au Bord de l'Eau

A woman sits at the left on a grassy bank looking at a group of cows standing in water. Behind are trees and a hill rising up in the distance.<br />Possible watermark at center left (of verso); image shows a fleur de lis over a triangle. Paper size: lh 26 2/5cm & rh 26 1/2cm x w 19 1/2cm. Plate size: lh 19 7/10cm & rh 19 9/10cm x w 13 2/5cm. Image size: lh 19 1/10cm & rh 19cm x tw 12 2/5cm & bw 12 1/2cm.

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Faneuses (Haymakers)

A group of women can be seen in a field raking hay. The central woman faces the viewer in the foreground; she wears a hat that shades her face. Behind her are two other women, also raking hay, shown from behind.

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Couseuse

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La Cardeuse (The Wool Carder)

A woman is shown seated in a simple interior. She is holding carding combs and is seated next to a pile of uncarded wool on one side and skeins of yarn on the other. Behind her is the wheel of a spinning wheel.

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Le Paysan rentrant du fumier (Man with a Wheelbarrow or Peasant Returning from the Dung Heap)

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The Mendicant

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Mount Hood from The Dalles

Landscape painting with white mountain peak in center background, body of water in foreground, and a Native American encampment to left.

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On the White Hills

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Le Givre a Veneux

A country scene with swirls of color all around. There are two distant reddish-colored buildings ibehind a fence that runs along the left side of the dirt path, which recedes to a vanishing point at the center of the work. Trees line the right-hand side of the dirth path. Two people in the lower right corner appear to be working; one stands straight, while the other bends over.

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Jamaica Bay

Horizontal landscape of a misty harbor view with several small boats in distance near center

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Bords de Riviere ou les Oies

Paper size: h 36 1/2cm x tw 46 1/2cm & bw 47cm. Image size: lh 21 3/5cm & rh 21 1/2cm x tw 32cm & bw 32 1/5cm.

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Bords du Loing, près de Saint-Mammès

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The Break-up of the Ice (La Débâcle or Les Glaçons)

A sweeping winter river scene opens up from the foreground and sweeps away towards the left. Ice floes dot the river surface and snowy hills frame trees that stand along the riverbank in the middle distance. The palette of this painting is restricted to mauves, blues, greens, and whites.

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Buildings with Water Tank (Bellevue Plantation, Virginia)

In this painting there are six buildings surrounded by green grass and tall tress without leaves. On the right side of the painting, a green and brown water tank rises out of and stands above the buildings at the height of a tree house. A brown fence separates the water tank from the buildings behind it.

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Landscape with Church and Cows

A landscape with a church and cows, river in the center.

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Perils of the Sea ('Peril on the Sea')

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The Dam Wood

In a desolate, wintery landscape stand a group of leafless trees with tall grasses beyond.

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Self Portrait with Saskia

Trimmed to plate mark. Paper size: lh 12 1/10cm & rh 12 3/10cm x tw 10 3/5cm & bw 11cm.

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Sea and Rain

The painting depicts a solitary male figure standing along the shore. The thin layers of paint evoke a misty, overcast day with the figure standing perhaps on a tidal flat.

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Iceberg landscape reflected in water

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Sailboat on choppy water at nighttime

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Sailboat on calm water in the distance at nighttime

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The Adur, near Shoreham

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Paysage

Landscape with a horizon line just below center. Land resembles horizontal waves in various shades of green. Line of trees at the horizon on left. The sky is blue-grey with four clouds.

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Reading Beneath the Trees (La Lecture sous les Arbres)

A sketch of a hillside in the background, seen through the trees. The trees heights are low on the left, leaving the left corner of the image open, and extending taller towards the top of the page as they move right. Between the far right tree and the second to the right is a woman, about 1/5 the size of the tree she stands against. About halfway up the trunk, between the same two trees is a square structure with one darkened window in the middle and a dark scribble to the right of it.

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The Adirondacks

Landscape with minute figure standing on the banks of a lake among trees and boulders in the foreground and mountains in the distance; blue sky with dark storm clouds on left and white cumulonimbus cloud on right.

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White Mountains (Mount Washington from Sunset Hill, North Conway)

Landscape painting with mountain peak at center and rolling mountains to either side; valley in foreground with houses hidden among trees in deep shadow and along hillside; blue sky above with wispy clouds.

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White Mountains in September, North Conway, New Hampshire

Landscape with trees in foreground, valley in middle ground dotted with minute figures of sheep and a farmer with a team of oxen pulling well-filled haywain. Mountains in distance with a snow-capped mountain in center background.

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Scene in the Catskills

This landscape painting depicts a rocky hillside beneath a blue sky and towering cloud formations. In the foreground area, a stream flows between boulders and cascades over rocks. There is a large square boulder with the roots and stump of a dead tree. The right side of the painting has green vegetation along the edege of the stream and tall green-leafed trees further back on the side of the hill. On the left, beyond the hill, there is a glimpse of far distant mountains. This scene is painted in warm tones of green and brown in a realistic manner. Patches of sunlight highlight areas of the hillside, boulders and the stream.

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Sunset Near Darien

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Landscape

This painting depicts a lush green countryside with an expanse of blue sky. It shows a hillside overlooking a small lake. There is a vista of fields and hills that extends beyond the lake to the horizon.<br />
In the foreground, a woman wearing a long dress and a bonnet and carrying a walking stick and basket, walks toward the viewer along a dirt path. The path runs from a building on the far left toward the bottom of the painting. The vegetation is painted in sharp detail in dark tones of green and brown.<br />
In the right half of the composition, there is a scene of a distant village and farms viewed through the trees on the edge of the hillside. In contrast to the shadowy wooded area, the view is bathed in bright sunlight. There is a lone bird in flight in the light blue sky that fills the top half of the painting.

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American Landscape

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The Edge of the Forest

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Valley of the Pemigewasset

Landscape painting with blue sky, blue/purple mountains, and forest greenery. Foreground occupied by livestock, felled trees, a cabin, and a figure on horseback. Larson 2/5/18

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Landscape—Evening

This painting depicts a quiet rural scene. A river runs from the foreground back into the distance, flanked on either side by green trees along the banks. A twilight sky dominates with salmon and blue hues. Ducks or geese fly just above the trees at right. A small figure fishing is visible on the left bank. The painting is signed and dated in paint (l.r.) "Daubigny 1870" (the date is somewhat obliterated).

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Evening Glow

This painting shows a landscape with a distant horizon and trees on the left hand side. The evening sky is depicted with yellows, oranges and greens. The painting is signed and dated (l.l.) "H.M. Kitchell / 1910".

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Rembrandt in Velvet Cap and Plume

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Mountain Valley with River and Buildings

Trees, figures by a river, small house on the left hand side, mountains behind.

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The Star

A sailboat with its sails set aloft in the shape of two triangles is silhouetted against a cloudy sky illuminated by the sun. Reflections of the boat and sun reach into the foreground of the image toward the viewer.

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The Kitchen, One of the 'Twelve Etchings from Nature,' or the 'French Set'

A dark interior view is shown with a deep recessed space. At the end of the space is a window; the recessed space is full of reflected light and a woman is seen framed against the bright view out the window. Closer to the viewer, the foreground is filled with domestic objects: furniture on the left with vases stored on top; a wall rack with plates stored on the right and other objects with basins or pots below the plates.

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The Pool, One of the 'Sixteen Etchings,' or the 'Thames Set'

A man in a cap sits in a rowboat in the foreground, his chin on his hand looking at the viewer. A number of other boats, all unoccupied, create a barrier between the man and the open expanse of the river that curves towards the left in the distance. The water's edge is congested with wooden buildings and ships, some in dry dock.

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La Vieille aux Loques

An old woman in a white cap sits in a cluttered interior. Positioned just inside the doorway, the woman is surrounded by piles of cloth with domestic objects on shelves and walls that gleam in the darkness.

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La Vieille aux Loques

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The Storm

A stormy and blustery landscape dominates the scene; at the lower left corner, a man with a moustache leans into the wind, clutching his coat in front of him with his right hand and holding his hat in place with his left hand. The landscape is flat and largely open; small groups of trees are visible in the distance and dark lines in the sky represent clouds and squall lines. In the center of the image are faint diagonal lines "cancelling" the plate.

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Sketching, No. 1; an illustration for 'Passages from Modern English Poets'

A rural countryside with a river flowing into the distance at the right dominates the scene. Two figures in a rowboat are at the center of the image and at the lower right corner, an artist, seated on a camp stool and facing away from the viewer, sketches the rowers.

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The "Adam and Eve," Old Chelsea

Black and white view of boats in a port. Small sailboats are docked along the edge of the water. Buildings are grouped at the water's edge.

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Autumnal Scene

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The Return Home

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California Orange Grove

Painting of landscape scene with blue sky and green field. Mountains and three houses in background in the upper-left quadrant. Grove with orange trees in center. Two men fishing along the banks of a stream in the lower right foreground.

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Landscape with Travelers

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Sunset on the Penobscot

A man with a fishing pole on a dock at a lake. There is a yellow cloudy sky above.

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View of the Fortifications at Gennep on the Maas River

The low horizon used in this landscape painting creates a sense of expansive sky and flat terrain, which is divided equally between river and land. Figures and animals engage in variety of activities on the riverbank and in boats, including fishing and ferrying cargo and animals. Silhouetted against the vast sky stands a fortress on a spur of land with an orange flag flying from its tower. The opposite bank is visible in the distance as a dark broken line across the shining stretch of water.

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Mountain Landscape

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Scholar in a Landscape

A vertical painting with signature on the right side. Colors primarily include gray and faded browns/oranges. Paper is faded yellow color.

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Landscape

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Landscape with River

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Boating by the Peach Leaf Crossing, from the album, Twelve Views of Jinling (Nanjing) (one of pair of albums)

Colored pring of a small body of water, surrounded by houses and small mountains. A gray wall is in the background. Text in upper left corner.

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Summer near Bethel, Maine

Landscape featuring three cows in a green and yellow field approaching a water source. Trees occupy the middle ground and a mountain range is visible against the blue sky. Larson 2/5/18 <br />

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The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (Kichizo Edition): #34 Futagawa

Group of people carrying parcels and leading horses in front of a shop. Other travelers can be seen crossing in the distance. There is a tall tree by the store, and across the water is a smal hill with trees on it. The skyline is edged in pink, suggesting dawn or dusk. Writing in upper right and left corners. Title in red box in upper right corner.

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Yosemite Valley, Looking West

Landscape painting, despicts a valley surrounded by steeply inclined mountains. The foreground is occupied by trees, cows, and still water. Light emanates from lower-right end of the valley, illuminating the left-most rock face. (Larson 2/5/18)

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View of the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Horizontal view of harbor scene with water, dock, and boats. Small figures and trees on pier in middle ground. WMC painted in green in lower right corner.

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River Landscape

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Sacred Bridge at Nikko

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Winter in Weehawken

This winter landscape scene is painted in light pastel colors including, white, blue, pink and gray. The artist has used vigorous brushstrokes and the paint has been applied thickly on the canvas. The scenery is not painted in detail but done in an impressionistic manner.<br />
In the foreground, a snow-covered hill slopes downward from the upper right side of the composition to the lower left. There is one tall tree that frames the scene on the far right and several others clustered on the left. In the middleground area, seen through the branches of these trees, there are factories and buildings of a town. Also, there are figures ice skating on a pond, at the far left of the composition. In the far distance, seen over the edge of the slope, is the skyline of a city, the shapes of skyscrapers silhouetted against a cloudy sky.

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Washing Clothes

A group of women gather to wash clothes in a river while a man looks on.

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Sunset

Landscape scene depicting trees silhouetted against a reddening sky with a dead fallen tree trunk lying diagonally across the foreground.

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Bacalan, near Bordeaux

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Landscape--Trees by the River

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Autumn, Hastings-on-Hudson

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Le pont sur le Lot

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The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

This photograph depicts an elevated, wide view of a curving river winding through a wooded valley, with snowcapped mountains rising in the distance. The sky above the landscape is filled with clouds.

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Landscape

Painting of a blue mountain overlooking a house and river on a gold support with brown flowers.

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The Rape of Europa

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Young Artists

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Tobago, from "The Creation"

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A Path through Autumn Woods

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Le Marais aux Canards

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Sunset, Yosemite

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Fishing at Sunset

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Figures in a Landscape with Sunset Sky

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Frisian Landscape

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Untitled, New York Sunset

An oil painting of New York City skyscrapers against a sunset. A large cloud is set in the middle of the sky.

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Nueva York

A sunset cityscape view with the sun right above the high-rise buiildings in New York City.

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Ann Arbor, Home of the University of Michigan

This landscape of a town has trees and a few figures in the foreground, homes in the midground, and the skyline of a small city in the background.

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Wooded Landscape with a Distant Sunset

This watercolor painting dominated by shades of browns depicts a wide path leading down to a waterfront. The path is flanked by small hills and shaded with large trees, and a person seems to walk along the left side of the path. In the distance across a body of water are faint outlines of buildings, possibly a city on the shore, and a sunset indicated by the orange tint in the clear sky.

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Fleurs et mains (Flowers and Hands); After the crayon drawing

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Le Repas Frugal

At the center of the scene, a man and a women sit at a table with an empty plate, two glasses, and a large bottle on the table before them. Their gazes are in nearly opposite directions and they appear gaunt.

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Profil de femme (Woman's Profile)

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Rays coming from a break in the sky, 1 - Cha 1

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Roses and Flowers in a Glass

This painting depicts a glass vase with roses, phlox, and other flowers standing on a table. One pink rose lies next to the vase on the table; the background is an undifferentiated background of brown/tan.

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Huron River

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Landscape

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Fishing Boats at Tarragona

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Barn in Snow

At the center of the painting, there is a red barn surrounded by snow covered ground. There are large trees on both sides of the barn, and a yellow house in the background.

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Early Spring, Ann Arbor

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Fishing Boats (Recto and Verso)

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The Road to Ann Arbor

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Amoenissimae Effigies. Plate 23. Die Zuyder Zee.

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Twilight

Landscape painting with green marshy field in foreground, a grouping of trees in the middle ground on right side of canvas, and blue sky with patches of soft clouds above.

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Chasing a Slaver

Ship chasing another ship. Shore on the right hand side of the painting.

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Landscape with Washerwoman

This landscape scene has an expansive blue sky in the upper half of the composition contrasted with the dark countryside, painted in hues of dark green and brown, in the lower portion. On the horizon, in between these two areas, is a mountain range with sharp pointed peaks. The forms of the bright white clouds mimick the foliage of the trees.<br />There are figures in the foreground area, although the rugged countryside shows no sign of habitation. On the right, two women are shown bending over, washing clothes in a small stream. There is a man sitting next to a laundry basket in the far left corner. A fourth figure, seen from the back only, is placed in the center area of the foreground.

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Landscape with Flock of Sheep

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Storm in the North Sea

Painting of distant ship in choppy dark blue and green waters. Sky is cloudy with windows of blue. Larson 2/7/18<br />

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Untitled (Landscape)

This painting features a landscape consisting of a grassy meadow with leafy green trees, accompanied by a blue sky punctuated by clouds. Wooded areas surround the verdant clearing where two women, one standing and the other sitting, are located. Across from the figures, to their right, is a brown cow. The recto of the painting is signed "Corot" on the lower left.

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A Squall

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In the Mountain Fastness

Dark landscape set atop a rocky mountain with sparse vegetation. There is a small boulder in the left foreground space with a dead tree standing beside it; in the right foreground there is what appears to be a small cave. A dead and broken tree lies across the bottom of the picture frame. There are mountains in the distance and a dark stormy sky above with a break in the clouds near the center of the canvas that reveals a sunny blue sky.

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Two Girls Reading (Deux Enfants Lisant)

Two girls, depicted in bold geometric shapes and block colors, reading a book together. The figure seated at viewer's right, slightly taller, is green and wearing yellow. The figure at viewer's left has a face of blue and white and is clothed in red resting her clasped hands upon an open book.

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Peacock

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Lane at Cooksbridge

Figures in a winter landscape. A couple and their small dog are silhouetted against snow and ice on a diagonal path lower right by a rail fence and a pollard willow. He is in a top hat and jacket, she in a long coat and broad hat, carrying an umbrella. A cottage with three chimneys and a steep roof is right of center behind a hedge and gate parallel to the path. Another house and wooded horizon are visible through the distant haze under a golden sky.

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The Nor'easter

Ship, centered on page, is sailing on choppy water rendered in blue, grey, and white against a cloudy sky. (Larson 2/7/18)

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Mount Chocurua, New Hampshire, from Walker's Pond

There is a pond on the left hand side, trees on the right, mountains on the left and top left.

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Seascape

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Canterbury Cathedral and Weed Grown Waste

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The Adirondacks

Accession Number
1979/2.136

Title
The Adirondacks

Artist(s)
William M. Hart

Object Creation Date
circa 1848

Medium & Support
oil on canvas

Dimensions
27 in x 34 ⅞ in (68.58 cm x 88.58 cm);22 ⅛ in x 30 ⅛ in (56.2 cm x 76.52 cm);27 in x 34 ⅞ in x 1 ⅜ in (68.58 cm x 88.58 cm x 3.49 cm)

Credit Line
Museum Purchase

Label copy
March 28 2009
In the 1840s and 50s, the boundaries of the United States were pushing ever further West, and the idea of the American landscape, with its soaring mountains, verdant forests, pristine rivers, and exotic inhabitants, held the imagination of the public. American scenery was celebrated in poetry, prose, and the visual arts, and the painters of what is now known as the Hudson River school, including William Hart, specialized in producing expansive views of it. Hart, in particular, was noted for his smooth, serene vistas executed in minute detail. The luxuriant and unspoiled landscape of the Adirondacks is the main subject of this painting, but it is inhabited by diminutive figures of Native Americans, one on the near shore facing the river and another on the water in a canoe. The idea that Native Americans coexisted, as here, harmoniously with nature was pervasive in American thought in the nineteenth century, and though they were admired for this quality, it also made them ripe for “civilizing” and justified governmental policies that caused the destruction of their cultures. The potential passing of these indigenous civilizations was a theme taken up by many artists of the period, and the darkening sky and juxtaposition of light and shadow in The Adirondacks may allude to their seemingly inevitable decline.

Subject matter
The painting depicts a scene from the Adirondack Mountains of up-state New York, possibly the shores along Lake Chateaugay, from the western shore of the Narrows, with Panther Mountain and Lyon Mountain in the distance.
“The Adirondacks” illustrates Hart’s embrace of the mannerism of the Hudson River School characterized by serene, pastoral, romantic landscapes. Hart depicts the American landscape as a bucolic setting, where humans and the natural world coexist harmoniously, and exploits the minuteness of the figure in the foreground and the storm clouds in the sky to emphasize the power and grandeur of nature.

Physical Description
Landscape with minute figure standing on the banks of a lake among trees and boulders in the foreground and mountains in the distance; blue sky with dark storm clouds on left and white cumulonimbus cloud on right.

Primary Object Classification
Painting

Primary Object Type
landscape

Collection Area
Western

Rights
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Keywords
Adirondack Mountains
Landscapes
figures (representations)
lakes
lakes (bodies of water)
lakeshores (landforms)
landscapes (environments)
mountains
trees

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Part of: Selected American, European, and Asian landscape paintings, and works of realism; and various sketches, etchings, and studies; and a few photographs. Works are by Rembrandt, Monet, Benton, Whistler, Picasso, Mattise, Kensett, Innes, Millet, Pissaro, Shahn, and more. (137 resources )
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Selected American, European, and Asian landscape paintings, and works of realism; and various sketches, etchings, and studies; and a few photographs. Works are by Rembrandt, Monet, Benton, Whistler, Picasso, Mattise, Kensett, Innes, Millet, Pissaro, Shahn, and more.

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Part of: Selected American, European, and Asian landscape paintings, and works of realism; and various sketches, etchings, and studies; and a few photographs. Works are by Rembrandt, Monet, Benton, Whistler, Picasso, Mattise, Kensett, Innes, Millet, Pissaro, Shahn, and more. (137 resources ) |

Selected American, European, and Asian landscape paintings, and works of realism; and various sketches, etchings, and studies; and a few photographs. Works are by Rembrandt, Monet, Benton, Whistler, Picasso, Mattise, Kensett, Innes, Millet, Pissaro, Shahn, and more.

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Part of: Selected American, European, and Asian landscape paintings, and works of realism; and various sketches, etchings, and studies; and a few photographs. Works are by Rembrandt, Monet, Benton, Whistler, Picasso, Mattise, Kensett, Innes, Millet, Pissaro, Shahn, and more. (137 resources )
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