Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011466Niagara Falls
About the Artwork
Hunt studied with the famous French painter of peasant scenes, Jean-Francois Millet (1814–1875), and played a major role in introducing the loose brushwork of advanced French painting into American art. In 1878, only a year before his tragic suicide, Hunt visited Niagara Falls. There he produced a remarkable group of pastels, charcoal drawings, and paintings in which the physical particulars of the scene appear to dissolve into a near-abstract pattern of water and mist.
Inscriptions
signed, lower left, in charcoal: [artist monogram: WMH.]
Exhibition history
William Morris Hunt: A Memorial Exhibition. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (organizer) (June 26-August 26, 1979). American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- William Morris Hunt (American, 1824–1879)
- Date
- 1878
- Medium
- charcoal and brush and charcoal wash; framing lines in charcoal
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 27.5 x 42.9 cm (10 13/16 x 16 7/8 in.); Image: 26.7 x 42.1 cm (10 1/2 x 16 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. G. Tappan Francis
- Accession no.
- 1943.326
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