Landscape with Curving River
Thomas Doughty
Doughty’s abandonment of a prosperous leather business at a young age to take up professional painting suggests an intense relationship with natural phenomena, one that privileged elements in nature over human experience. One of three paintings bequeathed to the Academy by the artist’s brother in 1879, Landscape with Curving River features both dramatic natural phenomena and quiet pastoral beauty. Doughty dramatically paints wide-open spaces, radiating foliage and quiet, pastoral beauty in great detail, with the artist’s careful pencil under-drawing peeking through the brightly lit clouds
Artist
Date of Birth
(1793-1856)
Date
ca. 1823
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
18 9/16 x 27 1/2 in. (47.14875 x 69.85 cm.)
Accession #
1879.8.5
Credit Line
Bequest of Henry C. Carey (The Carey Collection)
Copyright
No known copyright restrictions
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