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A Calm Watering Place--Extensive and Boundless Scene with Cattle
A Calm Watering Place--Extensive and Boundless Scene with Cattle
1816
Alvan Fisher
(American, 1792–1863)
Oil on panel
Unframed: 78 x 102.2 cm (30 11/16 x 40 1/4 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1994.106
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Some of his fellow artists hired Alvan Fisher to paint animals into their own works because he was so skilled at it.
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In this prime example of Fisher’s early rural pictures, a ferry delivers two wealthy women and their belongings ashore, as a herd of especially handsome cattle rests in the foreground. Boston-based Fisher was among the first American artists to specialize in landscape, recalling that “This species of painting being novel in this part of the country, I found it a more lucrative, pleasant and distinguishing branch of the art than portrait painting.”
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