Washington Allston

American, 1779 - 1843

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Three cows drink in a placid body of water in front of a landscape dim with golden sunset light in this horizontal painting. The water creates white eddies around a few rocks as it travels from the lower left corner of the canvas, across the foreground, and off to the right. In the bottom right quadrant of the composition, one cow is white, and another dark brown. The third, tawny brown cow flicks her tail as she dips her head to the water. Tall groves of trees on the far side of the water fill most of the right half of the composition. To the left, a path curves from the waterside back into a grassy, tree-pocked landscape with buildings on one low hill and a very distant horizon, which comes halfway up this composition. A person wearing a red vest over a white long-sleeved shirt, dark blue, knee-length pants, and a brown, brimmed hat rides a white horse coming toward us on the path. A short-hair, pale gray dog runs ahead of the horse, toward the cows. From below the horizon, the sunlight sets the grassy fields to golden tan, and the sky above fades from buttery yellow along the horizon to pale blue along the top of the composition. Lines of clouds are lit mauve pink and shaded ultramarine blue.
Washington Allston, A Landscape after Sunset, c. 1819, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund, Gallery Fund, and gifts of Orme Wilson, George E. Hamilton, Jr., and R. M. Kauffmann), 2015.19.96

A Landscape after Sunset

Washington Allston · c. 1819 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.96

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Sketch of a Polish Jew

Washington Allston · 1817 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.67

Washington Allston, Portrait of a Man, c. 1810, graphite on wove paper, Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts, 2018.44.39

Portrait of a Man

Washington Allston · c. 1810 · graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2018.44.39

Washington Allston, Composition with Four Figures [recto and verso], c. 1805, pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on laid paper, John Davis Hatch Collection, 1979.20.4

Composition with Four Figures [recto and verso]

Washington Allston · c. 1805 · pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1979.20.4

Seth Wells Cheney, John Cheney, Ship in a Squall, c. 1840s, engraving in black on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alice F. Williams), 2015.19.900

Ship in a Squall

Seth Wells Cheney, John Cheney · c. 1840s · engraving in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.900