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A simple open landscape with a hill in the center of a field with white clouds mixing with blue sky.

The field and hill are painted in rich earthy autumnal colors of greens, ochres, and browns. The brush strokes are pronounced and define the texture of the clouds and dimension and depth of the low hill. The hill and field are the most illuminated in the center, in line with large puffy clouds above. No trees or plants are depicted in this sublime scene.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1954.136
People
John La Farge, American (New York, NY 1835 - 1910 Providence, RI)
Title
Autumn: Mid-Day, Looking North, Table-Rock Hill, Peekskill, New York
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1870
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228774

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
30.5 x 41 cm (12 x 16 1/8 in.)
framed: 41.6 x 51.8 x 4.5 cm (16 3/8 x 20 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: verso, upper member of stretcher, paper, printed and handwritten: [printed:] MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS / [handwritten:] 1701.101 La Farge / Lent by E. W. Forbes
  • label: verso, left member of stretcher, paper, printed: 488 / 5
  • label: verso, upper member of stretcher, paper, red and black ink, printed: [red ink:] Museum of Fine Arts / [black ink:] 772 [ red ink:] CB / BOSTON, MASS.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Leonard's Gallery, Boston, 1879], sold; to Edward Waldo Forbes, Cambridge, 1906, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1954

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes
Accession Year
1954
Object Number
1954.136
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 188, cat. no. 145, reproduced in color

Exhibition History

  • [John La Farge exhibition], Leonard's Gallery, Boston, 01/01/1879 - 12/31/1879
  • Unidentified Exhibition, MFA Boston, 1906, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 01/01/1906 - 12/31/1906
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, 1934, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/01/1934 - 12/31/1934
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Macbeth Gallery, 1948, William Macbeth Gallery, 01/01/1948 - 12/31/1948

Verification Level

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