Landscape, the Ferry

Alternate TitleHudson Valley

Alternate TitleLandscape

Alternate TitleHudson River Scene

Alternate TitleThe Ferry

Artist Unknown

Formerly attributed to Thomas Doughty (American, 1793 - 1856)

Daten.d.

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 27 3/4 x 42 1/8 inches (70.49 x 107 cm)
Framed: 34 1/4 x 48 5/8 x 2 1/4 inches (87 x 123.51 x 5.72 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number33-2/4

Signedon boat in foreground: "T (?) Doughty"

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American Art

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DescriptionLand- and riverscape scene; in middleground man in red jacket fetties two cows in open boat across river toward bank at left; small hut seen in clearing at left; large treee growing on rock off shore at left; empty boat in left foreground; forest in background.Published References

Published References

Royal Cortissoz, "The Hudson River and Barbizon Men," New York Herald Tribune, 31 January 1932, sec. 7, 9 (as Hudson Valley by Thomas Doughty);

"New York Exhibition May Start Revival of Hudson River School," Art Digest 6 (1 February 1932), 5 (as Landscape by Thomas Doughty);

Paintings of the Hudson River School, exh. cat. (New York: Macbeth Gallery, 1932), unpaginated (as Hudson Valley by Thomas Doughty);

"Art News," Kansas City Journal-Post, 14 May 1933, 2B (as The Ferry by Thomas Doughty);

"The Acquisitions," Art Digest 8 (1 December 1933), 21 (artist as T. Doughty);

"The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art: Complete Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings," Art News 32 (9 December 1933), 28 (artist as T. Doughty);

NAMA 1933, 137 (artist as T. Doughty);

"Art," Kansas City Star, 30 August 1936, 10A (as The Ferry by Thomas Doughty);

"Temporary Exhibitions," News Flashes (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) 2 (1 September 1936), 1 (as The Ferry by Thomas Doughty);

"American Landscape Paintings," News Flashes (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) 8 (June 1939), 1 (as The Ferry by Thomas Doughty);

"American Group of Landscapes at Art Gallery," Kansas City Journal-Post, 23 July 1939, 14 (as The Ferry by Thomas Doughty);

NAMA 1959, 143 (artist as Thomas Doughty);

Frank H. Goodyear Jr., Thomas Doughty, 1793-1856: An American Pioneer in Landscape Painting, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1973), 29, pl. 40 (artist as Thomas Doughty);

NAMA 1973, 251 (artist as Thomas Doughty);

19th Century American Topographic Painters, exh. cat. (Coral Gables, Fla.: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 1974), 13 (as Hudson River Scene by Thomas Doughty);

NAMA 1977, 38 (as Landscape with Ferry by Thomas Doughty);

Ross E. Taggart, "American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri," Antiques 122 (November 1982), 1030-31, 1033 (artist as Thomas Doughty);

"The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Picturesque: British Influences on American Landscape Painting," Gallery of Art (Washington University, St. Louis), February 1984, unpaginated (as Landscape with Ferry by Thomas Doughty);

The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Picturesque: British Influences on American Landscape Painting, exh. cat. (St. Louis: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1984), 62-63 (as Landscape with Ferry by Thomas Doughty).

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