Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009972Landscape with Haywain
About the Artwork
Painted during the first year of the Civil War, this idyllic view of a farm near Dobb's Ferry, New York, proclaimed to Northern viewers the success of an agricultural system in which farmers worked their own land. The American flag hanging beside the homestead subtly alludes to the war. Such a scene was thus a critique of Southern slavery. Yet the beauty of the landscape, the wagon carrying a bountiful harvest of hay and the long afternoon shadows, also offers an optimistic image of harmony between man and nature.
Inscriptions
Signed lower right: "W. Whittredge 1861"
Provenance
William Phelps Eno, Westport, CT, 1920 [bought from artist]; Eno Foundation, Westport, CT; (Davis & Long Co., New York)
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Worthington Whittredge (American, 1820–1910)
- Date
- 1861
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 65.5 x 103 x 12.5 cm (25 13/16 x 40 9/16 x 4 15/16 in.); Unframed: 40.2 x 78 cm (15 13/16 x 30 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Accession no.
- 1975.20
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