Cleveland Museum of Art
Landscape with Haywain
Worthington WhittredgeLinkedCulture matchlcp-b72d0c76f402
- Date
- 1861
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- America
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 148215
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Painted during the first year of the Civil War, this idyllic view of a farm near Dobb's Ferry, New York, proclaimed to Northern viewers the success of an agricultural system in which farmers worked their own land. The American flag hanging beside the homestead subtly alludes to the war. Such a scene was thus a critique of Southern slavery. Yet the beauty of the landscape, the wagon carrying a bountiful harvest of hay and the long afternoon shadows, also offers an optimistic image of harmony between man and nature.
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- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Provenance
- William Phelps Eno, Westport, CT, 1920 [bought from artist]; Eno Foundation, Westport, CT; (Davis & Long Co., New York)
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