Jerome Thompson (American) 1814-1886,Apple Picking 1856,oil on canvas,measures 39¾xx49½ in.,(100..9x125.8 cm)
During the 1850s the genre painter Jerome Thompson specialized in picnic and harvest scenes that earned him considerable financial and critical success.Here,the mood is one of optimism and well-being,as signified by the bright sunlight,the bountiful crop of food,and the carefree,flirtatious behavior of the figures,whose activity suggests equal parts work and leisure.Many of Thompson's paintings were widely re-produced in the 1860s as chromo lithographs of Apple Gathering (another work)-produced and distributed in 1866 the year after the end of the Civil War-suggests the nostalgic appeal of Thompson's rural imagery,preceiived as embodying positive and national values.Here's another painting by Jerome Thompson I shot at the MET earlier this year
Jerome Thompson (American) 1814-1886,Apple Picking 1856,oil on canvas,measures 39¾xx49½ in.,(100..9x125.8 cm)
During the 1850s the genre painter Jerome Thompson specialized in picnic and harvest scenes that earned him considerable financial and critical success.Here,the mood is one of optimism and well-being,as signified by the bright sunlight,the bountiful crop of food,and the carefree,flirtatious behavior of the figures,whose activity suggests equal parts work and leisure.Many of Thompson's paintings were widely re-produced in the 1860s as chromo lithographs of Apple Gathering (another work)-produced and distributed in 1866 the year after the end of the Civil War-suggests the nostalgic appeal of Thompson's rural imagery,preceiived as embodying positive and national values.Here's another painting by Jerome Thompson I shot at the MET earlier this year