Spring Landscape

Thomas Doughty

ca. 1853–56 · Oil on canvas · The American Wing

This spring landscape is part of a series typifying the seasons and was presumably painted in the last years of the artist’s life. It is one of his most ambitious pictures and the last one of importance. It is a wide-angled panoramic view and Doughty has made an effort to give variety to the broad expanse of countryside. The farm, with people and animals in the sunlit middle distance, and the group of trees, shadowed below and brightly lit at the top, reveal a true gift for affectionate rendering of carefully observed minor detail.

Artist

Thomas Doughty

Date

ca. 1853–56

Medium

Oil on canvas

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Gift of George F. Shelton and Mrs. F. H. Markoe, in memory of their father, Theodore B. Shelton, 1917