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Caroline "Dolly" Martha Bell (1874–1970) was an American artist and educator, who painted water and landscape scenes mostly around the Peconic region of Long Island, New York. [1] She, along with other local female artists would often paint impressionist type paintings together.
John Frederick Kensett (March 22, 1816 – December 14, 1872) was an American landscape painter and engraver born in Cheshire, Connecticut.He was a member of the second generation of the Hudson River School of artists.
This painting was one of forty selected for her to tell her story in her own words in the book Grandma Moses American Primitive: "Away back in 1840, the farms were large, and they had many hired men, to till the land, as they raised all of their food, such as wheat, corn, oats, rhy [sic] and buckwheat and lots of lifestock [sic], horses, cows ...
Two of the forty paintings were illustrated in color (Sugaring Off, and Old Oaken Bucket). Though the text and formatting were the same, the second edition switched the order of the paintings that accompanied the artist's stories in order to accompany two more color illustrations (The Old Checkered House in 1860, and Early Springtime on the Farm).
As an artist, he believed landscapes were the highest art form and that nature was a direct manifestation of God. He also felt a patriotic affiliation with nature and saw his paintings as depicting the rugged and unspoiled qualities of America. Jasper Cropsey died in anonymity but was rediscovered by galleries and collectors in the 1960s.
Rhode Island School of Design Museum: Coast Scene Near Brighton: 1824 Detroit Institute of Arts: The Glebe Farm: 1827 Detroit Institute of Arts: Weymouth Bay: 1824 Paysage, esquisse: 1818 Collection of paintings of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille: Harnham Ridge from Archdeacon Fisher's House, Salisbury: 1829 National Gallery of Ireland