The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
A Calm Watering Place--Extensive and Boundless Scene with Cattle
1816
(American, 1792–1863)
Unframed: 78 x 102.2 cm (30 11/16 x 40 1/4 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1994.106
Location: 206 American Landscape
Did You Know?
Some of his fellow artists hired Alvan Fisher to paint animals into their own works because he was so skilled at it.Description
In this prime example of Fisher’s early rural pictures, a ferry delivers two wealthy women and their belongings ashore, as a herd of especially handsome cattle rests in the foreground. Boston-based Fisher was among the first American artists to specialize in landscape, recalling that “This species of painting being novel in this part of the country, I found it a more lucrative, pleasant and distinguishing branch of the art than portrait painting.”- (Alexander Gallery, New York)
- Steinberg, David., "Right Time, Wrong Place", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 35 no. 04, April 1995 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8-9 archive.org
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