America / 1816
A Calm Watering Place--Extensive and Boundless Scene with Cattle
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs A Calm Watering Place--Extensive and Boundless Scene with Cattle as painting (America · 1816).
Some of his fellow artists hired Alvan Fisher to paint animals into their own works because he was so skilled at it.
A CLOSER LOOK
The museum identifies this painting as oil on panel and credits Alvan Fisher (American, 1792–1863).
The museum's collection notes: In this prime example of Fisher’s early rural pictures, a ferry delivers two wealthy women and their belongings ashore, as a herd of especially handsome cattle rests in the foreground. Boston-based Fisher was among the first American artists to specialize in landscape, recalling that “This species of painting being novel in this part of the country, I found it a more lucrative, pleasant and distinguishing branch of the art than portrait painting.”
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