The Brook in the Woods
1882 · Oil on canvas
28 x 36 in. (71.1 x 91.4 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Thomas Worthington Whittredge
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WA-00056021
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None documented
1
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4
Works in Collection
21
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6
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70%
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800�1950
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
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- Birth yearWikidata· 92%
- Death yearWikidata· 92%
- NationalityWikidata· 92%
- Primary mediumWikidata· 92%
- BiographyWikipedia· 88%
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- AicTier 3 · Scraped/inferred50%
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Thomas Worthington Whittredge was a 19th-century American landscape painter whose work captured the vast wilderness and dramatic light of the American West and Hudson River Valley. Working primarily in oil on canvas, he developed a refined romantic aesthetic that balanced meticulous attention to atmospheric detail with monumental scale. His paintings were exhibited at major institutions including MoMA's landmark exhibition The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800, 1950.
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Art Institute of Chicago
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