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Themes: Ecology

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Artist(s): Thomas Doughty (Philadelphia, PA, Jul 19, 1793 - Jul 22, 1856, New York, NY)
Title: In the Catskills
Date: 1835
Dimensions: 30 1/4 in. x 42 1/4 in. (76.84 cm x 107.32 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas mounted on masonite
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Museum purchase, 1943.39

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

Themes: MLC Portfolio: Representing the Land
Themes: Ecology
Exhibitions: A Wildness Distant from Ourselves: Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century America
Periods and Styles: The Hudson River School

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

The Hudson River School and the Early American Landscape Tradition, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2/15/1945 - 5/18/1945
Masterpiece of the Month, Art Department, Connecticut College, 11/1/1947 - 11/30/1947
De Gustibus: An Exhibition of American Paintings Illustrating a Century of Taste, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1/7/1949 - 2/20/1949
Thomas Doughty, 1793-1856, William Macbeth Gallery (William Macbeth, Inc.), 2/28/1949 - 3/19/1949
Amerikanische Malerei: Werden und Gegenwart, American Federation of Arts, 9/20/1951 - 10/5/1951
Exhibition of Paintings from The Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass, Western Canada Art Circuit, 11/15/1953 - 6/3/1954
Scope in Collecting [25th Anniversary Exhibition], Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/19/1956 - 12/24/1956
Artistic Highlights of American History, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/10/1958 - 3/23/1958
The Carnegie Study of the Arts of the United States: An Exhibition of Paintings , Williams College Museum of Art, 11/18/1960 - 12/16/1960
Art in American History, Addison Gallery of American Art, 7/22/1962 - 10/28/1962
Classical America, 1815-1845, The Newark Museum, 4/22/1963 - 9/2/1963
200 Years of American Painting, City Art Museum of St. Louis, 4/1/1964 - 5/31/1964
Winterfest '66 [version of Roots and Promise of American Art], Winterfest, 2/18/1966 - 2/27/1966
American Landscape: A Changing Frontier, Smithsonian Institution, 4/27/1966 - 6/19/1966
Roots and Promise of American Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/10/1967 - 3/13/1967
Paintings from the Addison Gallery Collection, Showcase Cinema, 3/28/1967 - 4/25/1967
Hudson River School , State University of New York at Geneseo, 2/27/1968 - 4/6/1968
The American Vision: Paintings 1825-1875, Public Education Association, 10/8/1968 - 11/2/1968
The Works, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/7/1969 - 2/22/1970
Thomas Doughty (1793-1856), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 10/18/1973 - 4/7/1974
New York: The State of Art, New York State Museum, 10/8/1977 - 1/15/1978
Visions of the New Land: 19th Century American Landscape, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/7/1980 - 12/7/1980
Masterworks of American Art from the Addison Gallery Collection, Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc., 10/6/1981 - 10/31/1981
Images of the land : 200 years of landscape painting in Northeastern America, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, 5/1/1983 - 10/20/1983
Point of View: Landscapes from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/1992 - 12/20/1992
The American Land: Selections from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/19/2001 - 4/8/2001
In A Perfect World:Bermuda in the Context of American Landscape Painting, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 5/15/2002 - 9/15/2002
Tracing the Sublime, Addison Gallery of American Art, 12/16/2003 - 3/21/2004
Then and Now, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/10/2008 - 7/13/2008
Heaven and Earth, Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/7/2015 - 4/5/2015
A Wildness Distant from Ourselves: Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century America, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2019 - 7/31/2020

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