Cleveland Museum of Art
View of the Midwest Plains
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
- Date
- c. 1871
- Medium
- watercolor, graphite, ink wash, and gouache on paper
- Culture
- America
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
French artist Auguste Bartholdi is best known for designing the Statue of Liberty, a gfit from France to the United States in 1886, symbolic of freedom. He also maintained a watercolor practice throughout his career, and created a series of landscapes directly from nature while traveling across the United States in 1871 to identify a potential site for the Statue of Liberty. Here, Bartholdi depicts two figures riding horses before a landscape punctuated by distant buttes, suggesting the freedom he saw as characteristic of the United States. During his trip across the United States, Bartholdi wrote that “This voyage will probably be a great influence on my entire career, and I am sure that great things will result from it.”
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