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The Hills, Preston Dickinson, ca. 1919
Preston DickinsonAmerican, 1891–1930

The Hills

ca. 1919 · Painting · 61 × 68.5 cm

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C., United States

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

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About the painting

Preston Dickinson painted The Hills a few years after he returned to New York from France. He admired the work of the French modernist painters, especially Paul Cézanne, who transformed his subjects into simple shapes and planes of color. Dickinson composed this landscape from triangles and curves, and even the clouds reflect the shapes of the hills and buildings. The expressive brushstrokes and vibrant color evoke an energetic, windswept day in the countryside of New York.

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Particulars

Accession number
1965.11.1

What it shows

MountainsLandscapeArchitectureFarmsFarmhouseDomestic

In the catalog

PaintingsOilAmerican paintingModernism20th century

Sources

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