genre: landscape art / country of origin: United States of America

instance of: painting (1,678) | study (17) | watercolor painting (12) | sketch (5) | unfinished creative work (4) | drawing (3) | artwork copy (1) | lithograph (1)

commissioned by: William Thompson Walters (2)

owned by: Birmingham Museum of Art (20) | Carmen Cervera (12) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (9) | Phoenix Art Museum (6) | Louis P. Church (6) | Dallas Museum of Art (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 (23) | Tonalism (5) | American Impressionism (5) | Impressionism (4) | Realism (4) | Luminism (2) | luminism (2) | Romanticism (1) | Orientalism (1) | Post-Impressionism (1) | American scene painting (1) | Ashcan School (1) | modernism (1) | Tonalist (1)

based on: The Ray of Light (1)

artist: Albert Bierstadt (337) | D. Howard Hitchcock (117) | Frederic Edwin Church (109) | George Inness (106) | Jasper Francis Cropsey (66) | Thomas Moran (65) | Asher Brown Durand (58) | Robert S. Duncanson (48) | Thomas Cole (47) | Sanford Robinson Gifford (46) | Martin Johnson Heade (43) | Edward Mitchell Bannister (37) | Thomas Doughty (30) | Worthington Whittredge (29) | Thomas Hill (29) | William Trost Richards (23) | Hermann Ottomar Herzog (22) | William Louis Sonntag, Sr. (22)

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

depicts: tree (667) | sky (449) | cloud (408) | mountain (261) | river (202) | hill (157) | man (100) | rural area (73) | house (65) | lake (65) | waterfall (61) | cattle (60) | sunset (58) | landscape (45) | Catskill Mountains (44) | cliff (43) | rock (42) | Sun (40)

material used: oil paint (1,359) | canvas (1,127) | paper (120) | panel (56) | cardboard (50) | board (30) | watercolor paint (26) | canvas (22) | paperboard (18) | graphite (17) | gouache paint (14) | wove paper (10) | masonite (9) | brush (6) | pencil (3) | fiberboard (2) | charcoal (2) | wood (1)

collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum (162) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (153) | private collection (106) | National Gallery of Art (49) | Museum of Fine Arts (45) | Brooklyn Museum (44) | High Museum of Art (31) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (24) | Birmingham Museum of Art (23) | Yale University Art Gallery (22) | Buffalo Bill Center of the West (22) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art (21) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (20) | Cincinnati Art Museum (17) | Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (16) | White House (15) | Saint Louis Art Museum (14) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (12)

location: Smithsonian American Art Museum (162) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (153) | National Gallery of Art (48) | Museum of Fine Arts (44) | Brooklyn Museum (42) | High Museum of Art (31) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (23) | Birmingham Museum of Art (23) | Yale University Art Gallery (22) | Buffalo Bill Center of the West (22) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art (21) | Cincinnati Art Museum (17) | White House (15) | Saint Louis Art Museum (14) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (12) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (12) | M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (12) | The Phillips Collection (11)

exhibition history: Phoenix Art Museum (3) | London (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (1) | National Gallery (1) | Walters Art Museum (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)

main subject: summer (2) | Lake George (2) | environment (2) | autumn (1) | Andes (1) | transport (1) | morning (1) | mountain (1) | Indigenous peoples of the United States (1) | Yucatán (1) | field (1) | Lady of the Lake (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) | Violet Ormond (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) | Baltimore (1) | Gloucester (1) | Greenwich (1) | Atlantic City (1) | Capri (1) | Taormina (1)

published in: American art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2) | American Drawings and Watercolors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent (1) | 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: watercolor (1) | oil painting (1) | ink wash painting (1) | wash (1)