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Trout Fishing in the Catskills

Trout Fishing in the Catskills

Artist: Worthington Whittredge (American, 1820 - 1910)

Date: 1868 - 1870
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Canvas: 21 x 17 in. (53.3 x 43.2 cm)
Framed: 33 x 29 x 4 in. (83.8 x 73.7 x 10.2 cm)
Credit Line:Gift, Mrs. William L. Savage
Reframed through the Adopt-A-Painting program by Kathleen W. Kleppinger, in honor of Trygve M. Kleppinger
Object number: 1921.199.1
Whittredge was born in Ohio and apprenticed at the age of seventeen as a sign painter in Cincinnati and worked for a time as a photographer in Indianapolis. The artist turned to landscape painting by the mid-1840s, adopting the Hudson River School style of Thomas Doughty and Thomas Cole. In this forest interior, a lone fisherman is positioned near a large rock formation at the center of the composition. The cascading waterfall is flanked by an area of darkness on the left and sunlit pines on the right.
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