In Nature's Wonderland

1835

Thomas Doughty American, 1793-1856

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American, Level 2, West Wing

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Title In Nature's Wonderland

Artwork Date 1835

Artist Thomas Doughty

Life Dates 1793-1856

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 24 1/2 × 30 inches (62.2 × 76.2 cm) Framed: 31 1/8 × 37 1/8 × 2 1/8 inches (79.1 × 94.3 × 5.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 35.119

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Signed Signed and dated, lower center: T. Doughty 1835

Inscriptions Inscribed, on back, visible before relining: Painted by Tho's Doughty for John D. Fisher M.D. 1835

Provenance

1835, John D. Fisher (Boston, Massachusetts, USA). Mrs. Samuel Hammond (Boston, Massachusetts, USA). 1935, Vose Galleries (Boston, Massachusetts, USA). 1935-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

American Painting. Exh. cat., M.H. De Young Museum. San Francisco, 1935, no. 87.

Burroughs, Clyde. "Early American Landscape Painting." Bulletin of the DIA 15, 6 (March 1936): pp. 86-87 (ill.).

Survey of Landscape Painting. Exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Art. San Francisco, 1936, no. 29.

Kellner, Sydney. "The Beginnings of Landscape Painting in America." Art in America 26 (1938): p. 162.

A Century of American Landscape Painting. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1938, no. 13.

Richardson, Edgar P. The Way of Western Art 1776-1914. Cambridge, MA, 1939, p. 92.

American Landscape Exhibition. Exh. cat., Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh, 1939, no. 60.

Romantic Painting in America. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1943, no. 79.

The World of the Romantic Artist: A Survey of American Culture from 1800-1875. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1944, p. 29, no. 42.

The Hudson River School and the Early American Landscape Tradition. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1945, p. 37, no. 82.

Paintings by Doughty. Exh. cat., MacBeth Gallery. New York, 1949, no. 3.

Richardson, Edgar P. Painting in America: The Story of 450 Years. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1957, p. 157.

The American Muse. Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959, no. 19.

Dorra, Henri. “Parallel Trends in Literature and Art.” Art in America. 47, 2 (Summer 1959): pp. 20-47.

McCoubrey, John W. The American Tradition in Painting. New York, 1963, p. 37 (pl. 23).

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 35.

Wilmerding, John. Pittura Americana Dell’Ottocento. Milan, 1967, p. 91 (ill.).

Callow, James T. Kindred Spirits: Knickerbocker Writers and American Artists, 1807-1855. Chapel Hill, 1967, p. 122.

Nineteenth Century America. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1970, no. 50.

Wilmerding, John. Audubon, Homer, Whistler, and Nineteenth-Century America. New York, 1970, pp. 5-6, 31 (pl. 13).

Cummings, Frederick J. and Charles H. Elam, eds. The Detroit Institute of Arts Illustrated Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 138.

Thomas Doughty 1793-1856: An American Pioneer in Landscape Painting. Exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Philadelphia, 1973, pp. 17, 27, no. 32.

Thistlewaite, Mark E. The Image of George Washington: Studies in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American History Painting. New York, 1979, no. 47 (ill.).

Brown, Milton, Sam Hunter, John Jacobus, Naomi Rosenblum, and David M. Sokol. American Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts, Photography. New York, 1979, pp. 193-194.

A Mirror of Creation, 150 Years of American Nature Painting. Exh. cat., The Vatican Museums. Vatican City, 1980, p. 3 (ill.).

Kazin, Alfred. A Writer’s America: Landscape in Literature. London, 1988, p. 17 (ill.).

Shaw, Nancy Rivard, et al. American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume I. New York, 1991, pp. 72-74 (ill.).

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