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Niagara Falls
William Morris Hunt1878
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Hunt studied with the famous French painter of peasant scenes, Jean-Francois Millet (1814–1875), and played a major role in introducing the loose brushwork of advanced French painting into American art. In 1878, only a year before his tragic suicide, Hunt visited Niagara Falls. There he produced a remarkable group of pastels, charcoal drawings, and paintings in which the physical particulars of the scene appear to dissolve into a near-abstract pattern of water and mist.
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- Title: Niagara Falls
- Creator: William Morris Hunt (American, 1824-1879)
- Date Created: 1878
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 27.5 x 42.9 cm (10 13/16 x 16 7/8 in.); Image: 26.7 x 42.1 cm (10 1/2 x 16 9/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.326
- Medium: charcoal and brush and charcoal wash; framing lines in charcoal
- Inscriptions: signed, lower left, in charcoal: [artist monogram: WMH.]
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: America, 19th century
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. G. Tappan Francis
- Collection: DR - American 19th Century
- Accession Number: 1943.326
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