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Exhibitions: Learning to Look: The Addison at 90

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Artist(s): John Trumbull (Lebanon, CT, Jun 6, 1756 - Nov 10, 1843, New York, NY)
Title: The Cohoes Falls-12 Miles from Albany on the Mohawk River
Date: 1791
Dimensions: 2 15/16 in. x 4 11/16 in. (7.46 cm x 11.91 cm)
Medium: Ink and ink wash on laid paper
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Museum purchase, 1940.27

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Exhibitions: A Wildness Distant from Ourselves: Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century America
Periods and Styles: Early America
Exhibitions: Learning to Look: The Addison at 90
Themes: MLC Portfolio: Representing the Land

Object Information

This diminutive ink and watercolor sketch of the Cohoes Falls in upstate New York is one of only a handful of landscapes created by famed history painter and Revolutionary War veteran John Trumbull. Executed in 1791, this work is the earliest landscape in the Addison’s collection.

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Outdoors, Addison Gallery of American Art, 00/00/00 - 00/00/00
Drawings and Watercolors from the permanent collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/7/1945 - 00/00/00
John Trumbull in Northern New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, 11/1/1949 - 11/27/1949
John Trumbull, Painter-Patriot [John Trumbull: Connecticut Painter], Wadsworth Atheneum, 10/10/1956 - 11/25/1956
Breaking Away: Paintings and Drawings of the Colonial and Federal Periods, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/3/1980 - 11/2/1980
John Trumbull: The Hand and Spirit of a Painter, Yale University Art Gallery, 10/27/1982 - 1/16/1983
Ideas and Notations: Masterworks on Paper from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/10/1992 - 8/2/1992
Point of View: Landscapes from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/1992 - 12/20/1992
Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/13/1996 - 7/31/1996
On Paper: Masterworks from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/1/2003 - 4/6/2003
A Wildness Distant from Ourselves: Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century America, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2019 - 7/31/2020
Learning to Look: The Addison at 90, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/8/2021 - 2/6/2022

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