Tree Landscape
1877
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 51 × 76 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-135956
Edward Bannister was a leader in Boston's African American culture in the middle of the nineteenth century. In 1870, the artist moved to Rhode Island, where he painted the pastures, marshes, and forests, seeking "the spiritual...in all created things." Tree Landscape evokes the intimate encounter with nature favored by France's Barbizon painters, but Bannister's belief that God might be found in …
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Melvin and H. Alan Frank from the Frank Family Collection
Registry history
- 1877 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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