The Birches of the Catskills
ca. 1875
- Medium
- oil on canvas mounted on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 33.5 × 19.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-138998
Worthington Whittredge found it difficult to adjust to painting the New England landscape after almost ten years abroad. He described the forests as “a mass of decaying logs and tangled brush wood” that were completely different from the “well-ordered” European views he was used to. (The Autobiography of Worthington Whittredge, 1942, reprinted in Janson, Worthington Whittredge, 1989) The broad br…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William Katzenbach
Registry history
- ca. 1875 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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