Landscape and Lagoon, New Rochelle
The often sublime, expansive topography characteristic of Johnson’s work as a Hudson River School painter was replaced late in his career by compositions of flat terrain, often, as in this drawing, dominated by a few large trees bordering a body of water in the foreground and admitting only a glimpse of a distant prospect at either side. This drawing was undoubtedly the model for the Museum’s painting “Bayside, New Rochelle, New York” (15.30.65). The site is characteristic of those that Johnson--following French Barbizon taste--preferred as subjects in his later career: domesticated, undramatic, and riparian. This image reflects the quiet, genteel refuge New Rochelle had been, before the arrival of an amusement park in the mid-1880s, which drew thousands of visitors from the metropolitan area each summer.
Artwork Details
- Title: Landscape and Lagoon, New Rochelle
- Artist: David Johnson (American, New York 1827–1908 Walden, New York)
- Date: 1884
- Culture: American
- Medium: Graphite and white chalk heightening on tan wove paper
- Dimensions: 11 x 18 in. (27.9 x 45.7 cm)
- Credit Line: John Osgood and Elizabeth Amis Cameron Blanchard Memorial Fund, 1980
- Object Number: 1980.115
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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