Thomas Doughty

American, 1791 - 1856

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American artist and lithographer (1793-1856)

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Thomas Doughty, View on the Hudson in Autumn, 1850, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran), 2015.19.113

View on the Hudson in Autumn

Thomas Doughty · 1850 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.113

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Tintern Abbey

Thomas Doughty · after 1836 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2016.23.1

A wide, placid river winds through a hazy landscape with a grassy bank to the left and a sheer rock formation to the right in this horizontal painting. The water tumbles down step-like rapids near the center of the composition in the middle distance. To our right, a ruined building nestled among trees stands atop a rocky outcropping that extends about a third of the way across the painting. Two tall, spindly trees grow on a lower, grassy bank to the left. A waterfall pours from a narrow gap in more rocky cliffs to the left, farther back than the rapids. Craggy, pointed mountains are pale purple in the deep distance. In the top third of the canvas, smoky-purple clouds curve along the corners around a sky glowing pearl white. The artist signed and dated the painting as if he had inscribed the information on the base of the cliff near the lower right corner of the composition: “T. DOUGHTY BOSTON 1834.”
Thomas Doughty, Fanciful Landscape, 1834, oil on canvas, Gift of the Avalon Foundation, 1963.9.2

Fanciful Landscape

Thomas Doughty · 1834 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.9.2

Thomas Doughty, Harpers Ferry from Below, 1825-1827, watercolor with pen and black ink on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Orme Wilson), 2014.136.203

Harpers Ferry from Below

Thomas Doughty · 1825-1827 · watercolor with pen and black ink on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2014.136.203

Thomas Doughty, Pennsylvania Landscape, c. 1810-1830, etching in black on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund), 2015.19.872

Pennsylvania Landscape

Thomas Doughty · c. 1810-1830 · etching in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.872

Thomas Doughty, Pennsylvania Landscape, etching, Rosenwald Collection, 1963.11.90

Pennsylvania Landscape

Thomas Doughty · · etching ·  Accession ID  1963.11.90

Bibliography

1854

  • Lewis, E. Anna. "Art and Artists of America--Thomas Doughty, N. A.." Graham's Magazine 45 (November 1854): 483-484.

1941

  • Doughty, Howard N. "A Biographical Sketch of Thomas Doughty." Unpublished manuscript, Library of the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., 1941.

1947

  • Doughty, Howard. "Thomas Doughty, Painter of Scenery." Appalachia 13 (June 1947): 307-309.

  • Sears, Clara Endicott. Highlights Among the Hudson River Artists. Boston, 1947: 3-23.

1969

  • Goodyear, Frank, Jr. "Life and Art of Thomas Doughty." Master's thesis, University of Delaware, 1969.

1973

  • Goodyear, Frank, Jr. Thomas Doughty 1793-1856: An American Pioneer in Landscape Painting. Exh. cat. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Albany Institute of History and Art. Philadelphia, 1973.

1996

  • Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 131.