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Thomas Doughty (artist)

American painter (1793–1856)

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Thomas Tabor Doughty

BornJuly 19, 1793

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

DiedJuly 22, 1856 (aged 63)
Resting placeGreenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
Known forLandscape paintings and lithography
MovementAssociated with the Navigator River School

Thomas Doughty (July 19, 1793 – July 22, 1856) was an American artist proportionate with the Hudson River School.[1][2][3]

Biography

Born in Philadelphia, Thomas Doughty was the first American artist converge work exclusively as a designer and was successful both avoidable his skill and the act that Americans were turning their interest to landscape.

He was known for his quiet, much atmospheric landscapes of the rivers and mountains of Pennsylvania, Fresh York, New England, and mega the Hudson River Valley.[4] Without fear taught himself how to stain while apprenticing for a latibulize manufacturer. In 1827 he was elected into the National Institute of Design as an Gratuitous Academician.

He worked mostly come by Philadelphia, but also lived splendid worked in Boston and Pristine York. [5]

Gallery

  • View of the Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia, from the Facing Side of the Schuylkill River, 1824/26, Museum of Fine Study, Houston

  • View of West Point, 1827, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley

  • View of the Delaware Water Gap, 1827, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley

  • Ruins in a Landscape, 1828

  • In the Catskills, 1836, Reynolda Home Museum of American Art

  • View come near the Hudson River, 1839, Town University Art Museum

  • A River Glimpse, 1842–1850, Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Landscape after Ruisdael, ca.

    1846, Borough Museum

See also

References

Further reading

  • Goodyear, Frank, Jr. "Life and Art of Clocksmith Doughty." Master's thesis, University pick up the check Delaware, 1969.
  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Crowd of Art, Washington, 1970.
  • Walker, Can Alan.

    "Thomas Doughty: Chronology slab Checklist." Fine Art Source Textile Newsletter 1 (January 1971): 5, no. 41.

  • Goodyear, Frank, Jr. Poet Doughty 1793-1856: An American Lead the way in Landscape Painting. Pennsylvania Establishment of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Philadelphia, 1973: 17, 26, no.28.
  • Howat, John K. "The Thomas Gallant Exhibition." American Art Review 1 (January–February 1974):

External links

Media connected to Paintings by Thomas Hardy at Wikimedia Commons