Thomas Worthington Whittredge

Kennedy Galleries, New York
Norman Hirschl, New York
Preston Morton Collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, 1960 (gift from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Washington, D.C., Adams Davidson Galleries, Quiet Places: The American Landscapes of Worthington Whittredge, 1982, no. 21, p. 58, illustrated

Katherine Harper Mead, The Preston Morton Collection of American Art, Santa Barbara, 1981, p. 101, illustrated
Anthony F. Janson, Worthington Whittredge, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989, pp. 131, 133, 180, fig. 99, illustrated

Oil on canvas, canvas is lined. Surface: In generally good condition aside from a few small areas of faint craquelure. Work presents nicely and is ready to hang. UNDER UV: A few small dots of inpaint along extreme edges and a 1 inch diagonal line of inpaint at the upper right corner.
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With regards to the present work, Anthony F. Janson states that, "The essential qualities of his style are demonstrated by a group of landscapes along the Delaware River, which lies southwest of the Catskills, just beyond the Shawungunk River. The masterpiece among these paintings is Scene on the Upper Delaware, State of New York . . . In it, the intuitive apprehension of light receives its most radiant expression of all Whittredge's paintings. He uses a myriad of small, pointed brushstrokes to suggest forms through the sparkling play of colored light across the landscape, which achieves an extraordinary range of visual effect surpassing anything he had painted before. Light becomes the expression of an immediate, yet profoundly lyrical response to a visual impression. The serene naturalism evinces an unusual receptiveness to nature, which the artist allows to speak directly through his innately poetic sensibility." (see Anthony F. Janson, op. cit., p. 131)