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Drawing, Artists Sketching at Chocorua Pond, New Hampshire
This is a Drawing. It was created by Daniel Huntington. It is dated September 28, 1854 and we acquired it in 1942. Its medium is graphite on cream wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
From the early 1850s, North Conway village and the region around Chocorua Mountain, in southern New Hampshire, became the center for artists painting in the picturesque manner. John F. Kensett and Benjamin Champney from Boston, who owned a house in this town, attracted other artist colleagues. In this drawing, Daniel Huntington depicted Champney, Thomas Edwards, John Wood Dodge, and Alfred Ordway sketching by Chocorua Pond. Their presence in the area was reported in the New York Daily Times in August 1854: “Huntingdon [sic] is now here, and [Sanford] Gifford and [Samuel] Colman and Champney…and a host of younger artists…So despite himself, North Conway is destined to become, not, perhaps, a fashionable resort, (the gods forfend!) but a favorite sojourn of artists, poets, students, and all persons of cultivation and refinement.”
Wall Label from exhibition, "Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape," Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY.
This object was
bequest of
Erskine Hewitt.
It is credited Bequest of Erskine Hewitt.
Its dimensions are
25.9 x 35.9 cm (10 3/16 x 14 1/8 in.)
It has the following markings
Verso: Stamped in black ink (Lugt 457c), lower right: Museum for the Arts of Decoration/ Cooper- Hewitt.
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pencil, left to right below seated men: Edwards / Dodge / Ordway / Champney; lower right: Chicorua pond. Sep 28. / 54 l
Cite this object as
Drawing, Artists Sketching at Chocorua Pond, New Hampshire; Daniel Huntington (American, 1816–1906); USA; graphite on cream wove paper; 25.9 x 35.9 cm (10 3/16 x 14 1/8 in.); Bequest of Erskine Hewitt; 1942-50-161
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape.
