Minneapolis Institute of Art
Approaching Storm, White Mountains
Alvan FisherLinkedCulture matchlcp-0f08923c029d
- Date
- 1820s
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 106528
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
This small picture portrays a family farm nestled in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. In the lower right, two figures and a dog gather on a hilltop. They watch calmly as an afternoon storm gathers above their cultivated fields. Based in Boston, Alvan Fisher was one of the first artists in the United States to specialize in landscape art. A portraitist by training, he began painting scenes of rural New England in the mid-1810s. These works celebrate the daily rhythms of agricultural life, which many at the time saw as the foundation of a strong and stable democracy. Americas
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- Credit line
- Gift of Dr. John and Colles Larkin
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