The Adirondacks / William M. Hart
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- Accession Number
- 1979/2.136
- Title
- The Adirondacks
- Artist
- William M. Hart
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1823-1894
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1848
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Style/Group/Movement
- Hudson River School
- Inscription
- Inscribed, l.r.: W Hart
- Dimensions
- 68.58 cm x 88.58 cm (27 in. x 34 7/8 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- landscape
- Physical Description
- Landscape with minute figure standing on the banks of a lake among trees and boulders in the foreground and mountains in the distance; blue sky with dark storm clouds on left and white cumulonimbus cloud on right.
- Subject Matter
- The painting depicts a scene from the Adirondack Mountains of up-state New York, possibly the shores along Lake Chateaugay, from the western shore of the Narrows, with Panther Mountain and Lyon Mountain in the distance.
- “The Adirondacks” illustrates Hart’s embrace of the mannerism of the Hudson River School characterized by serene, pastoral, romantic landscapes. Hart depicts the American landscape as a bucolic setting, where humans and the natural world coexist harmoniously, and exploits the minuteness of the figure in the foreground and the storm clouds in the sky to emphasize the power and grandeur of nature.
- Primary Keywords
- adirondack mountains
- figures (representations)
- lakes
- lakeshores
- landscapes
- landscapes (environments)
- mountains
- trees
- Secondary Keywords
- relation to water
- upward
- bodies of water
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- bodies of water by size
- buildings and the land
- geography
- lacustrine bodies
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by position
- landforms by shape or position
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- plants
- settlements and landscapes
- shores (landforms)
- the natural world
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- woody plants
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1283 x 935
- File Size
- 76 KB
- Record
- 1979/2.136
- Link to this Item
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"The Adirondacks; William M. Hart." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1979-sl-2.136/1979_2.136.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
