Worthington Whittredge (American, 1820–1910)

Worthington Whittredge

Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).

Year in Review: 1969

Themes of American Painting. Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI (organizer) (October 1-November 30, 1977).

Themes of American Painting

Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie. University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA (August 17-November 3, 1996); Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (November 23, 1996-February 23, 1997); Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (April 19-July 27, 1997).

Plain Pictures:  Images of the American Prairie

Spokane, International Exposition, Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water: An Exhibition of American &amp; Canadian Art (4 May-3 November 1974), cat. no. 48 as Graves of Travellers, Fort Kearney, Nebraska.

Grand Rapids, MI, The Grand Rapids Art Museum, Themes in American Painting (1 October-30 November 1977), cat. no. 6, listed p. 211, illus. p. 22, as Graves of Travellers, Fort Kearney, Nebraska.

Sarasota, Fla., John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Worthington Whittredge: Hudson River Artist (8 December 1989-11 February 1990); traveled to Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum (24 March-20 May 1990); Chattanooga, Tenn, Hunter Museum of Art (10 June-5 August 1990); Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art (8 September-4 November 1990)

Iowa City, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie (17 August-3 November 1996); traveled to Fort Worth, TX, The Amon Carter Museum (23 November 1996-23 February 1997); to Omaha, The Joslyn Art Museum (19 April-27 July 1997), cat. no. 36, pp. 64-73, illus. pp. 70-71.

A horizontally oriented oil painting is divided by a vast green prairie stretching toward low brown hills. In the foreground, several small mounded graves are marked by weathered wooden posts. Above, a pale gray sky with thick, textured clouds fills the upper half. Handwritten text in the lower right corner reads "Fort Kearny June 1866." The muted palette and expansive horizon emphasize the somber, lonely atmosphere of the scene.

Graves of Travellers, Fort Kearny, Nebraska

Worthington Whittredge

Graves of Travellers, Fort Kearny, Nebraska

Worthington Whittredge

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