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Landscape with Mountains

Artist/Maker
Datesecond half 19th century
MediumOil on wood
DimensionsOverall: 19 1/4 × 27 in. (48.9 × 68.6 cm)
Frame: 24 1/4 × 32 × 1 1/2 in. (61.6 × 81.3 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineSpecial Acquisitions Fund
PortfolioCopy after Jasper F. Cropsey's, "American Harvesting," 1851, oil on canvas (Indiana University Art Museum).
Object number1986.3
Status
Not on view
More Information
This vernacular rendering of Cropsey's American Harvesting (painted in 1851) celebrates the harmonious inhabited landscape, with the farm as a nucleus of natural splendor. From the remnants of forested wilderness in the foreground, to the town, river, and mountains in the distance, the scene presents an idyllic balance between untamed nature and the artifice of civilization.
Exhibition History
American Folk Art: A View of the Western Reserve in the Nineteenth Century
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (June 10, 1986 - August 31, 1986 )
In the Best Stile: Folk Portraits and Landscapes from Oberlin Collections
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (October 10, 1995 - December 17, 1995 )
Changing Visions of the North American Landscape
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (October 24, 2000 - January 28, 2001 )
Collections
  • Americas