TitleLandscape
Artist
William Hart
(1823-1894)
Daten.d.
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 7 1/4 × 10 1/4 in.
Framed: 9 1/4 × 12 1/4 × 3/4 in.
SignedSigned lower left: "W. Hart"
SubmissionProbable NA diploma presentation, February 7, 1859
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1298-P
Label TextWilliam Hart's and Richard Hubbard's diploma works were both accepted by the Academy's Council on February 7, 1859. Neither painting was named in the record, though presumably both were landscapes. No diploma work by Hart was listed in the inventory of the Academy's collection published in 1911; only the two landscapes by him received in the James A. Suydam bequest in 1865 were recorded. The painting credited to Hubbard in the 1911 inventory under the title "White Face, Adirondack Range" was presumably considered at that time to be his diploma work. By the mid-1950s Hubbard's name and that title were assigned to the present painting; however, because its style, size, and subject more closely resemble Hart's manner than Hubbard's, the work has been reattributed to Hart.The mountain, which does not seem to be White Face, bears a close resemblance to Mount Chocorua in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, one of the popular artists' haunts Hart visited in the late 1850s.
