Landscape with man walking a dog in the foreground, distant city on horizon, trees to the left. Gilded frame.
landscapes (representations)
paintings (visual works)
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Landscape
Landscape
"Artful Stories": This view from Winthrop is one that Ernest Wadsworth Longfellows contemporaries would have recognized by the skylines distinctive features, including the steeple of the Park Street Church and the dome of the Massachusetts State House. The trees in the foreground draw viewers into the composition, which relies on the huge sky to underscore the vast flatness below.
Admired for figure paintings as well as landscapes, the artist was the son of the famous poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, attended Harvard University, then studied art in France, and traveled widely.
Chase, Theodore, 1832-1895
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Longfellow, Ernest Wadsworth, 1845-1921 (Artist)
Cambridge, MA, USA
14 3/8 x 18 1/8 x 2 3/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.821
Massachusetts (United States)
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