Ducks in the Woods
One of America’s first professional woman landscape painters, Hart Beers developed a reputation for highly detailed forest views. Although the precise location of this quiet and contemplative landscape is unknown, it was likely inspired by on-the-spot sketches executed in New Jersey or upstate New York. Hart Beers’s fidelity to nature reveals the influence of the English critic John Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites, whose meticulous landscapes challenged the romanticized aesthetics of the so-called Hudson River School.
Artwork Details
- Title: Ducks in the Woods
- Artist: Julie Hart Beers (American, 1835–1913)
- Date: 1875
- Culture: American
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 26 × 18 in. (66 × 45.7 cm)
- Credit Line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 2023
- Object Number: 2023.417
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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