Landscape
- Date
- 1845
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- made in
- New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- American Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 336
- Dimensions
- 22 7/8 × 29 1/4 in. (58.1 × 74.3 cm)
framed (sight): 28 7/8 × 35 1/4 in. (73.3 × 89.5 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 79:1968
NOTES
An artist balances his sketchbook as he captures a scene filled with the red glow of dusk. This landscape presents a sense of both the exotic, with tropical plants and palm trees, and the pastoral, as canoes and sailboats dot the river.
Helen M. Kingman signed the back of the canvas with her name, the date, and her age—15. This is the only painting from her brush that is known to survive. In the same year it was painted, the itinerant portraitist Susan Catherine Moore Waters (1823–1900) had visited the Kingman family in New York. She likely inspired Helen to show off her sure hand at drawing and her fondness for rich jewel tones.
Helen M. Kingman signed the back of the canvas with her name, the date, and her age—15. This is the only painting from her brush that is known to survive. In the same year it was painted, the itinerant portraitist Susan Catherine Moore Waters (1823–1900) had visited the Kingman family in New York. She likely inspired Helen to show off her sure hand at drawing and her fondness for rich jewel tones.
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