genre: landscape art / material used: oil paint / country of origin: United States of America

instance of: painting (1,359) | study (14) | unfinished creative work (4) | sketch (4) | drawing (3) | artwork copy (1)

commissioned by: William Thompson Walters (1)

owned by: Birmingham Museum of Art (19) | Carmen Cervera (11) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (8) | Phoenix Art Museum (6) | Dallas Museum of Art (5) | Louis P. Church (5) | Arizona State University Art Museum (3) | Harold E. Simon (3) | Oliver B. James (3) | Charles Savage Homer, Jr. (3) | Kennedy Galleries (2) | Berry-Hill Galleries (2) | M. Bruce Sullivan (2) | Coe Kerr Gallery (2) | Questroyal Fine Art (2) | Albert Bierstadt (1) | National Gallery (1) | Lamar Hunt (1)

movement: Hudson River School (22) | Tonalism (5) | American Impressionism (5) | Impressionism (4) | Realism (4) | Luminism (2) | luminism (2) | Romanticism (1) | Orientalism (1) | Ashcan School (1) | Tonalist (1)

based on: The Ray of Light (1)

artist: Albert Bierstadt (263) | Frederic Edwin Church (105) | George Inness (104) | D. Howard Hitchcock (62) | Asher Brown Durand (58) | Jasper Francis Cropsey (53) | Thomas Cole (44) | Thomas Moran (44) | Robert S. Duncanson (43) | Martin Johnson Heade (39) | Sanford Robinson Gifford (36) | Edward Mitchell Bannister (34) | Thomas Hill (24) | Hermann Ottomar Herzog (22) | Worthington Whittredge (22) | Thomas Doughty (19) | William Louis Sonntag, Sr. (17) | John Frederick Kensett (16)

part of the series: The Course of Empire (5) | The Voyage of Life (3)

depicts: tree (565) | sky (374) | cloud (341) | mountain (221) | river (171) | hill (133) | man (88) | rural area (73) | house (56) | cattle (54) | waterfall (54) | lake (52) | sunset (52) | rock (38) | landscape (38) | cliff (37) | Catskill Mountains (37) | Sun (36)

collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum (140) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (125) | private collection (96) | National Gallery of Art (49) | Brooklyn Museum (43) | Museum of Fine Arts (37) | High Museum of Art (29) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (23) | Buffalo Bill Center of the West (22) | Birmingham Museum of Art (21) | Yale University Art Gallery (21) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (18) | Cincinnati Art Museum (17) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art (16) | White House (15) | Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (14) | Saint Louis Art Museum (14) | Corcoran Gallery of Art (12)

location: Smithsonian American Art Museum (140) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (125) | National Gallery of Art (48) | Brooklyn Museum (41) | Museum of Fine Arts (36) | High Museum of Art (29) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (22) | Buffalo Bill Center of the West (22) | Birmingham Museum of Art (21) | Yale University Art Gallery (21) | Cincinnati Art Museum (17) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art (16) | White House (15) | Saint Louis Art Museum (14) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (11) | Minneapolis Institute of Art (11) | New Britain Museum of American Art (11) | The Phillips Collection (10)

exhibition history: Phoenix Art Museum (3) | London (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (1) | National Gallery (1) | National Gallery of Art (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Panama–Pacific International Exposition (1) | Amon Carter Museum of American Art (1) | Tate (1) | Les XX (1) | National Academy of Design (1) | Goupil & Cie (1) | École des Beaux-Arts (1) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (1) | Egyptian Hall (1) | International Exposition 1867 (1) | Grosvenor Gallery (1)

main subject: Lake George (2) | summer (1) | autumn (1) | Andes (1) | transport (1) | mountain (1) | Indigenous peoples of the United States (1) | Yucatán (1) | field (1) | Lady of the Lake (1) | environment (1) | Annisquam River (1) | gorge (1)

donated by: Carl S. Dentzel (2) | Pi Beta Phi (1) | J.E.R. Chilton (1) | Robert R. Rosenbaum (1) | Carolann Smurthwaite (1) | James Beattie (1) | Mr. and Mrs. Bert J. Friedman (1) | Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Rogers (1) | Frederick R. Pleasants (1) | Charles F. Olney (1) | Stuart P. Feld (1) | Martha Esty Michie (1) | Verrill Family (1) | Mr. and Mrs. E. Bryson Powell (1)

location of final assembly: California (2) | New York (2) | Brooklyn (2) | New York City (1) | London (1) | Rome (1) | Maine (1) | Ecuador (1) | Massachusetts (1) | Arizona (1) | Texas (1) | New Mexico (1) | Gloucester (1) | Greenwich (1) | Atlantic City (1) | Capri (1) | Taormina (1) | San Francisco Bay (1)

published in: American art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1) | American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from the Warner Collection (1) | A Covenant of Seasons (1) | Charles Warren Eaton (1857-1937): An American Tonalist Rediscovered : November 4-December 31, 2004 (1) | Early Art and Artists in West Virginia: An Introduction and Biographical Directory (1)

fabrication method: wash (1)