Alvan Fisher, A Calm Watering Place--Extensive and Boundless Scene with Cattle
Marlatt Fund, 1994.106 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Alvan Fisher

A Calm Watering Place--Extensive and Boundless Scene with Cattle

1816

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
78 × 102.2 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-1101471

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.”

Provenance

Marlatt Fund, 1994.106

Registry history

  • 1816 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

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