"The Shaded Stream"

Details

Descriptive Terms

landscapes (representations)
oil paintings (visual works)
oil paint (paint)
canvas
Painting
Painting

Label

Laura Coombs Hills is best known for pastels and miniatures. However, within Hills' body of work is a group of Barbizon-inspired landscapes probably dating from the 1880s. “The Shaded Stream” is one of these. These oils bear a stylistic relationship with the broadly-painted works of her teacher Helen Knowlton, who had taken over the women's art classes of William Morris Hunt, and with those of fellow Newburyport artist J. Appleton Brown. In addition to the influence of Knowlton and Brown, it seems likely that Hills was exposed in the late 1880s to the work of young Bostonians - Frank Benson, Edmund Tarbell, Willard Metcalf, and John Leslie Breck - who at the time were experimenting with Impressionist techniques they learned in France.

Additional Identification Number

1575.1

Maker

Hills, Laura Coombs (American painter and miniaturist, 1859-1952) (Artist)

Location of Origin

MA

Dimensions

24 x 28 x 3 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Museum Purchase

Accession Number

2016.56.1

Places

Massachusetts (United States)