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Landscape with Stream and Mountains, Thomas Doughty, 1833
Thomas DoughtyAmerican, 1793–1856

Landscape with Stream and Mountains

1833 · Painting · 42.7 × 61 cm

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C., United States

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About the painting

Thomas Doughty's landscape is a fantasy of the American frontier that echoes Thomas Jefferson's hopes for the nation. Lush vegetation, towering mountains, and crystal waters surround the fishermen, who harvest the riches of land and water without disturbing paradise. When Doughty created this painting, expansion was in full swing, and Jefferson's idea of a new republic strongly rooted in the land remained a powerful image for European settlers who pushed the nation's frontiers westward to the Mississippi River.

Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Particulars

Accession number
1976.54

What it shows

MountainsLandscapeSport and playRecreationRiversFishing

In the catalog

PaintingsOilAmerican paintingRomanticism19th century

Sources

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