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A Mountain Stream
Provenance
after 1913: The artist, by descent to daughter, Marion Robertson Beers Brush after 1945: Marion Robertson Beers Brush [1853–1945], Mount Vernon, NY, by descent, to son William Carleton Brush After 1983: William Carleton Brush [1900–1983], Mount Vernon, NY, by descent to son, Walton "Tony" Brush After 2011: Walter "Tony" Brush [1930–2011], New York, NY, by descent to children, Clare Brush Kostow, Walton Brush, Jr., and Julie Hart Brush 2024–2025: Clare Brush Kostow, [b. 1956], Walton Brush, Jr. [b. 1957], and Julie Hart Brush [b. 1961], consigned to Hawthorne Fine Art, LLC 2025: Hawthorne Fine Art, LLC, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art 2025–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
About the Artwork
At a time when women faced many barriers, Julie H. Beers became one of the first women from the United States to have a successful career as a landscape painter. In addition to selling her work, she earned income by organizing instructional outdoor sketching trips for women in upstate New York and New England. Although its location was not recorded, A Mountain Stream was likely painted on her summer trip to New Hampshire’s White Mountains in 1870. Rendered close-up from a low vantage point, its intimately scaled composition features tree roots, angled boulders, patches of moss, pockets of vegetation, and gentle cascades of water.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Julie H. Beers (American, 1835–1913)
- Date
- 1870
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 29.5 x 49.2 cm (11 5/8 x 19 3/8 in.); Overall framed: 52.1 x 71.1 cm (20 1/2 x 28 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Sundry Art - Miscellaneous Fund
- Accession no.
- 2025.199
More by Julie Hart Beers in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009609
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