1912, Charles Herbert Woodbury, Monadnock [Mount Monadnock in Winter] -- American University Museum (Washington)

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No American mountain has been painted more frequently than Mount Monadnock, the highest peak in southern New Hampshire, not far from the town of Dublin. Artists Thomas Hewes Hinckley, William Trost Richards, and Chauncey Ryder, all featured in this exhibition, recorded its imposing presence. Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921), who lived a few miles from the mountain, often taught students in his rural retreat, and probably did the most to promote its artistic visibility in the early twentieth century. Its hiking trails also captured the imagination of the Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller.

 

From the early 1890s until his death, Woodbury, who was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, and trained as an engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, maintained a studio in Boston during the winter and summered in the small fishing village of Perkins Cove in Ogunquit, Maine. There he established a summer art school and in 1928 was a co-founder of Ogunquit Art Association. He became known for his seascapes. It is not known if a visit to fellow artist Thayer inspired him to paint Mount Monadnock, but it is apparent that the undulating waves that dominated his seascapes found their counterpart in his interpretation of this massive mountain. Here specific details are of less interest to Woodbury than multiple areas of color which verge on the abstract. The vertically arranged layers of the landscape, which defy traditional perspective, anticipate the focus of mid-century American artists in exploiting the flat surface of the canvas.

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