The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
View of a Lake
c. 1830s
(American, 1793–1856)
Framed: 53.3 x 69.6 x 7.6 cm (21 x 27 3/8 x 3 in.); Unframed: 38.5 x 55 cm (15 3/16 x 21 5/8 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1963.574
Location: not on view
Description
Contrasting the many American landscape painters who conveyed nature's power through raging storms and blasted trees, Doughty emphasized the quiet power of the outside world in his idyllic paintings. Largely self-taught, he often drew from nature and skillfully transformed his detailed observances into soft, poetic depictions of the landscape. This work exhibits Doughty's penchant for inserting small figures in the center of the middle ground. The scale of the two boys on the lake's edge allows the viewer to focus on the expansive scenery, thereby emphasizing the diminutive nature of humankind in relation to the vast landscape.- J. N. Bartfield, New York; (Victor Spark, New York)
- Mansfield, OH, Mansfield Art Center, The American Landscape (8 March - 5 April 1981), cat. 1, p. 5, ill. p. 1.American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, OH (organizer) (July 7-November 1, 1979).Coshocton, OH, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, American Paintings 1825-1915 from The Cleveland Museum of Art (7 July - 1 November 1979), traveled to Lakewood, OH, The Kenneth C. Beck Center (17 September - 13 October 1980), fig. 3.Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965).
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