The Pic-Nic (Q18689373)
Label from: English (en)
genre:
landscape art (Q191163)
artist:
Thomas Cole (Q334001)
collection:
Brooklyn Museum (Q632682)
location:
Brooklyn Museum (Q632682)
country of origin:
United States of America (Q30)
exhibition history:
Thomas Cole: Landscape into History (Q49756575)
depicts:
picnic (Q506294)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
Google Arts & Culture asset ID:
RQGn0xsVbWf2eg
Brooklyn Museum artwork ID:
1356
catalog URL: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/1356
information from the Brooklyn Museum catalog
description:
Thomas Cole undertook this painting in the fall of 1845 in response to a generous commission from the wealthy New York banker and philanthropist James Brown. Cole chose the subject of a picnic to describe the ideal coexistence of nature and civilization. The demand for paintings like this one that combined the figural and natural was a result, at least in part, of the rising popularity of outdoor leisure-time pursuits, including excursions such as picnics. However, hints of time’s passage and mortality invade this otherwise lighthearted scene through the ax-cut tree stump so prominent in the foreground.
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