Catskills

While living in Irvington in the 1860's, within view of the Hudson, Samuel Colman made numerous oil and watercolor paintings of the panoramic splendor of the River, as well as the sailing vessels and steamboats that carried cargo, tourists, and artists.

His body of work documents various artistic excursions from near his home up through the Highlands to the Catskills as far as Claverack in Columbia County. He captured this view of the Catskill Mountains rising above the shoreline from the east bank of the River, somewhere between Barrytown and Tivoli in Dutchess County, New York.