Artist:
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Alvan Fisher
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Title:
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Approaching Storm, White Mountains
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Date:
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1820s
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Medium:
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Oil on canvas
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Dimensions:
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20 1/4 x 23 5/8 in. (51.44 x 60.01 cm)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Dr. John and Colles Larkin
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Location:
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Gallery 323
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As an early interpreter of the American landscape, Alvan Fisher formulated pastoral scenes that rose to the level of visual poetry. Their celebration of the land had an immediate appeal to patrons in his day. Approaching Storm, White Mountains represents the best of his style, wherein delicate light, verdant clearings, and rounded forms exude a sense of peace and plenty. Fisher's role in setting the stage for the artists of the Hudson River School is hinted at through the gray mass of clouds that threaten at upper right - a foretaste of the romantic sublime.
Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Fisher, Alvan
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Nationality:
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American
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Life Dates:
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American, 1792 - 1863
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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farmstead with figures in LRC; hillside with distant mountain peaks; darkened sky from URC
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Creation Place:
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North America, United States, , ,
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Accession #:
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2009.16.4
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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