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Thomas DoughtyEvening on the Schuylkill River, near Philadelphia1830s
1830s
About the Item
Provenance:
Alexander Gallery, NYC 1985
Manoogian Collection, Detroit, MI
Private Collection, Great Neck, NY
Exhibitions:
Alexander Gallery, NYC "Hudson River Masters" 1986
Rau Antiques, New Orleans, LA "American Landscapes" 2019
Thomas Doughty was one of the first Americans to paint purely landscapes. He was the dominant artist in Philadelphia until the arrival of Thomas Cole. In the 1830's he made his way up into the Boston area where he painted with great success. Eventually, he found a welcome home in the New York City art community, traveling up into the Hudson Highlands. This oil is a major attempt to portray the beauty and silence of a cold winter night. It was done around 1830-1835, a great
period in the height of his talents.
- Creator:Thomas Doughty (1793-1856, American)
- Creation Year:1830s
- Dimensions:Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 50 in (127 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Jacksonville, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2595213972582
Thomas Doughty
Born in Philadelphia, Thomas Doughty was the first American artist to work exclusively as a landscapist and was successful both for his skill and the fact that Americans were turning their interest to landscape. He was known for his quiet, often atmospheric landscapes of the rivers and mountains of Pennsylvania, New York, especially the Hudson River Valley, and New England. A criticism of his work was that "there was often more of Doughty in his landscapes than there was of the location he painted." His landscapes were popular early in his career, but he was surpassed by Thomas Cole and other Hudson River painters in the view of a public that wearied of his work that was perceived as "over-mannered and too unspecific compared to that of his successors." Doughty was trained in leather manufacturing but turned to art as leisure activity and received only three months of training in India-ink drawing. In 1820, he turned to art completely, and by 1822, was exhibiting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and two years later was elected an academician. In 1827, he was elected an honorary member of the National Academy of Design. He was also a creative lithographer, and from 1830 to 1834, published with his brother a monthly journal called Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports. In this publication, birds and animals were drawn precisely with landscape backgrounds by Doughty. Doughty spent much of his life in Baltimore, Washington, Boston, and New York City, but for much of the time made his home in Philadelphia until 1832 when he moved to Boston. After five years in Boston, he went to England for two years. On his return to America in 1838, Doughty lived for a time in New York City, but in 1839-40 he was at Newburgh, New York on the Hudson River. He returned in 1841 to New York City, where he remained, except for a second trip to Europe (1845-46) and a brief residence in western New York (1852-54), until his death, whose date is uncertain. Some give his death date as 1856, but census records indicate he was still alive in 1860. He spent the last 20 years of his career in New York City.
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