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Landscape with Haywain

1861

Worthington Whittredge

(American, 1820–1910)
Culture
America
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Framed: 65.5 x 103 x 12.5 cm (25 13/16 x 40 9/16 x 4 15/16 in.); Unframed: 40.2 x 78 cm (15 13/16 x 30 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1975.20
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Painted during the first year of the Civil War, this idyllic view of a farm near Dobb's Ferry, New York, proclaimed to Northern viewers the success of an agricultural system in which farmers worked their own land. The American flag hanging beside the homestead subtly alludes to the war. Such a scene was thus a critique of Southern slavery. Yet the beauty of the landscape, the wagon carrying a bountiful harvest of hay and the long afternoon shadows, also offers an optimistic image of harmony between man and nature.
A horizontally oriented oil painting depicts a vast landscape under heavy, gray clouds. In the foreground, a brown field is dotted with bundles of golden hay where figures work near a wagon. To the left, a blue-roofed house sits among lush green trees near a river with a white sailboat. On the right, vertical streaks convey falling rain, while the far left horizon glows with pale light over distant, rolling mountains.

Landscape with Haywain

1861

Worthington Whittredge

(American, 1820–1910)
America

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