Wabash near New Harmony

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

Wabash near New Harmony

Dimensions

14 5/8 × 11 15/16 in. (37.1 × 30.3 cm)

Medium

Watercolor on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.65

Rights (i.e. copyright information)

Joslyn Art Museum

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

Bodmer's dramatic representations of the forested banks of the Fox and Wabash rivers reveal a love of nature that increasingly characterized his later career as a landscape painter in Europe. According to Maximilian, the artist did not often complete such scenes in a single sitting, but usually returned several times to a selected site. The results thus obtained more nearly resemble studio works than the hasty sketches made while traveling the wilderness, roads, or the river.

Labels:

genre, riverscape , New Harmony, Indiana , Wabash River

Approximate Depicted Location:

Wabash River, Indiana