Thomas Doughty

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View toward the Hudson River , 1839, Princeton University Art Museum

Thomas Doughty (born July 19, 1793 in Philadelphia , † July 22, 1856 in New York ) was an American painter from the Hudson River School .

Doughty was the first American artist to paint exclusively landscapes and was successful because of his skill and because Americans turned to landscapes. He was known for his calm and often atmospheric landscapes of rivers and mountains of Pennsylvania , New York , New England and especially the Hudson River Valley. He learned to paint in self-study while he was an apprentice at a leather manufacturer. In 1827 he was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Academician .

He worked mainly in Philadelphia, but also lived and worked in Boston and New York.

gallery

  • Ruins in a Landscape, 1828

  • In the Catskills, 1836, Reynolda House Museum of American Art

  • Landscape after Ruisdael, ca.1846, Brooklyn Museum

  • View of the Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia, from the Opposite Side of the Schuylkill River, 1824/26, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

literature

  • Frank Henry Goodyear: The life and art of Thomas Doughty . Newark, Del. 1969, OCLC 4109622 (dissertation).
  • American Paintings and Sculpture. An Illustrated Catalog. National Gallery of Art, Washington 1970, OCLC 130508 .
  • John Alan Walker: Thomas Doughty: Chronology and Checklist. Fine Art Source Material Newsletter 1 (January 1971): 5, No. 41.
  • Thomas Doughty, Frank Henry Goodyear, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Albany Institute of History and Art: Thomas Doughty, 1793–1856. An American pioneer in landscape painting . Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia 1973, OCLC 798052 .
  • John K. Howat: The Thomas Doughty Exhibition. In: American Art Review 1 (January – February 1974).

Web links

Commons : Thomas Doughty  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RG McIntyre: Thomas Doughty 1793-1856 forerunner of the American landscapes school . Macbeth Gallery, New York 1949, OCLC 84571534 ( PDF, short biography online - different death date July 24th).
  2. ^ Ian Chilvers: The Oxford Dictionary of Art . 3. Edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-860476-9 , pp. 216 ( books.google.com - different death date July 24th).
  3. ↑ Thomas Doughty . National Gallery of Art . Archived from the original on May 10, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 9, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nga.gov
personal data
SURNAME Doughty, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1856
Place of death new York