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Title |
Niagara Falls |
Place of Origin |
New York, Niagra Falls |
Artist or Maker |
Harvey, George (1800/1-1878) |
Date |
1840-1850 |
Materials |
Watercolor on Glass |
Dimension Details |
Height: 6 3/4" Width: 5 5/8" Framed Height: 15 3/4" Width: 15 1/4" |
Description |
This watercolor on glass depicts a medium eye-level view of Niagara Falls behind a rocky cliff topped with evergreen trees. A figure in Native American dress is standing on a stoney ledge within the arc of a rainbow in the lower center of the painting, and a snake is on a flat rock in the left foreground. Born in Tottenham, England, George Harvey arrived in the United States at age 20 and traveled through the West for many years before establishing himself as an artist painting miniatures in Boston in 1829. Ultimately he settled near Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, where he painted a series of "atmospheric views" of American landscapes. His painting of Niagara Falls was one of a corpus prepared to be projected like color slides and used by the artist to accompany his lectures in England (beginning in 1849) about North American scenery. |
Provenance |
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, New York Sold to The Dietrich American Foundation, 1971 |
Object Name |
Painting |
Object ID |
6.4.870 |
Search Terms |
paintings |