Cleveland Museum of Art

North Easton, Massachusetts

William Morris Hunt

Date

1877

Medium

charcoal; framing lines in charcoal

Culture

America

Department

Drawings

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Hunt was one of the first American artists to draw with charcoal rather than chalk or graphite pencil. In 1877, he visited North Easton, Massachusetts to paint a portrait of the financier and art patron, Oliver Ames. At this time Hunt made several drawings of the town of North Easton, viewed from across a millpond. This drawing portrays the scene around mid-afternoon. William Morris Hunt (American, 1824–1879)

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