TitleThe Ford
Artist
Aaron Draper Shattuck
(1832 - 1928)
Date1856
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 16 × 24 in.
Framed: 20 × 27 7/8 × 2 3/4 in.
SignedSigned lower right: "A. D. Shattuck 1856"
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Bequest of James A. Suydam, 1865
Object number1156-P
Label TextWhen this painting, one of three by Aaron Draper Shattuck in Suydam's collection that depict North Conway, New Hampshire, was first exhibited at the National Academy of Design's Annual in 1856, one critic remarked that although the painting was "replete with picturesque feeling" it was "a little too facilely executed for a young man, who should spend his energy in trying to do things well rather than easily." The painting shows a comparable degree of asymmetry to Suydam's early Conway Meadows that may indicate mutual awareness at this formative stage of both artists' careers..
