TitleStudy from Nature
Artist
Thomas Worthington Whittredge
(1820 - 1910)
Date1863
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 19 3/4 × 15 3/4 in.
Framed: 23 7/8 × 19 7/8 × 2 in.
SignedSigned and dated, lower right: W. Whittredge / 1863
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Bequest of James A. Suydam, 1865
Object number1520-P
Label TextWorthington Whittredge was Suydam's close friend, travel companion, and neighbor in the Tenth Street Studio Building during the 1860s, but this is inexplicably the only one of his paintings in Suydam's collection. Whittredge's "Study from Nature" is a small-scale work in a series of forest interiors that he created during the early 1860s in the Hudson River Valley. He later recalled the subject of these works as "the primitive woods with their solemn silence reigning everywhere."
