Mountain Landscape, Stream and Waterfall

1860

William Hart

Associated Names
William Hart

Artist, American, 1823 - 1894

The image shows a natural landscape with a river flowing diagonally towards the viewer and a waterfall in the distance on the upper left. There are trees, rocky formations, and detailed brushstrokes depicting the water and foliage. The color scheme is mainly brown, gray, and white, and trees are densely packed on the right side.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite with white (gouache?) on brown paper

  • Credit Line

    John Davis Hatch Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 15.2 × 11.4 cm (6 × 4 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1979.20.54

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Davis Hatch [1907-1996]; gift 1979 to the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1997

  • Allen, Elizabeth K. "Picnic: Drawings by the American Sculptor Launt Thompson" Master Drawings XXXV (1997): 115, repro. 116.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: WH (in monogram).60.; lower right verso in graphite in later hand:B30755

Wikidata ID

Q64637154

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