Object Details
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- This image shows Mount Chocorua in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. William James Stillman was a friend of the English art critic John Ruskin and an enthusiastic follower of Ruskin’s belief that “All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.” In this piece, Stillman painted every element in careful detail to show its perfection, from the mossy rocks in the foreground to the patches of snow on the mountain peak.
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- “The true method of study is, to take small portions of scenes, and there to explore perfectly and with the most insatiable curiosity, every object presented, and to define them with the carefulness of a topographer.” Stillman, The Crayon, March 28, 1855, quoted in Ehrenkranz, Poetic Localities, 1988
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- William James Stillman, born Schenectady, NY 1828-died Surrey, England 1901
- Date
- 1856
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. Richard D. Bullock and museum purchase made possible by Walter Beck and Reverend F. Ward Denys
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 12 1/8 x 18 in. (30.8 x 45.6 cm.)
- Type
- Painting
