 Thomas
Worthington Whittredge (1820-1910)
Oil on canvas, 20½ x 14½ in. |
| Worthington Whittredge , an important member of the Hudson River School, is best known for his landscape paintings of forest interiors. The woods and streams of the Catskill Mountains in New York provided the inspiration for many of Whittredge's paintings that depict forests with filtered sunlight, as in A Brook in the Woods. After a series of trips west, he painted American frontier landscapes. Whittredge is considered one of the most versatile of the Hudson River painters. As a respected, established landscape painter, Whittredge served as President of the National Academy of Design. He lived in Summit, New Jersey from 1870 until his death in 1910. |