View on the Hudson in Autumn, 1850

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 64

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 86.68 × 122.56 cm (34 1/8 × 48 1/4 in.)

framed: 114.62 × 150.5 × 12.7 cm (45 1/8 × 59 1/4 × 5 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

Accession Number

2015.19.113

Artists / Makers

Thomas Doughty (painter) American, 1791 - 1856

Image Use

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Provenance

Commissioned from the artist by William Wilson Corcoran [1798-1888], Washington;[1] gift 1869 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The Corcoran accession card (in NGA curatorial files) notes that the work was "painted for Mr. Corcoran's private collection."

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Corcoran, William Wilson

Exhibition History

1874: A Tribute to W. W. Corcoran of Washington City, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1874, no. 91, as Autumn on the Hudson.

1950: Paintings of the Hudson River, Century Association, New York, 1950, unpublished checklist, as Autumn on the Hudson.

1966: Past and Present: 250 Years of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, unpublished checklist, as Autumn on the Hudson.

1971: Loan for display at the U.S. Embassy, Moscow, 1971-1973.

1973: Thomas Doughty, 1793-1856: An American Pioneer in Landscape Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Albany institute of History and Art, 1973-1974, no. 49, as Autumn on the Hudson.

1976: Corcoran [The American Genius], Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1976, no checklist, as Autumn on the Hudson.

1978: Michigan Artrain tour, March-June 1978.

1979: Romantic America: The Middle Decades of the 19th Century, Tampa Museum of Art, 15 September - 26 November 1979, no. 39, repro., as Autumn on the Hudson.

2009: Lives of the Hudson, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs,18 July 2009 - 14 March 2010, unnumbered catalogue.

2013: American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

1857: Lanman, Charles. Catalogue of W.W. Corcoran's Gallery. Washington, 1857: 10, no. 24.

1966: Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters born before 1850. Washington, 1966: 55-56, repro.

2011: Kelly, Franklin. "Thomas Doughty, View on the Hudson in Autumn." In Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Edited by Sarah Cash. Washington, 2011: 20, 94-95, 261, repro.