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Photography by Dwight Primiano
Landscape
Photography by Dwight Primiano

Landscape

Artist (1833 - 1905)
Dateca. 1863-1864
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions23 1/2 × 33 1/2 in. (59.7 × 85.1 cm)
Framed: 34 1/2 in. × 44 1/4 in. × 4 in.
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2008.4
Accession number 2008.4
On View
On view
ProvenanceGiles E. Castillon, Philadelphia, PA, by 1864; (Thomas Colville Fine Art, LLC, New Haven, CT); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2008
Label TextWilliam Trost Richards carefully described and differentiated every element of nature with nearly scientific accuracy in Landscape. As a member of The Society for the Advancement of Truth in Art, Richards was inspired by the British art critic John Ruskin’s call to uncover divine significance in the smallest elements of nature. Further, scholars have suggested that the bucolic, peaceful, and intimate nature of this painting offered viewers a respite from the harshness of the Civil War, which was still raging.

William Trost Richards describió y diferenció tan meticulosamente cada elemento de la naturaleza en esta pintura paisajista, que su precisión resulta casi científica. Richards, quien fue miembro de La Sociedad para el Avance de la Verdad en el Arte, se inspiró en el llamado del crítico inglés de arte John Ruskin, a descubrir el mensaje divino hasta en los elementos más pequeños de la naturaleza. Algunos estudiosos han sugerido que la naturaleza bucólica, pacífica e íntima de esta pintura ofrecía a los espectadores un respiro de las hostilidades de la Guerra de la Secesión, la cual todavía sacudía al país.

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