Thomas Doughty (artist)

For more people with this same name, see Thomas Doughty (disambiguation).

Thomas Doughty (July 19, 1793 – July 22, 1856) was an American artist associated with the Hudson River School.

Thomas Tabor Doughty
Born	July 19, 1793 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died	July 22, 1856 (aged 63)
Resting place	Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
Known for	Landscape paintings and lithography
Movement	Associated with the Hudson River School

Biography

Born in Philadelphia, Thomas Doughty was the first American artist to work exclusively as a landscapist and was successful both for his skill and the fact that Americans were turning their interest to landscape. He was known for his quiet, often atmospheric landscapes of the rivers and mountains of Pennsylvania, New York, New England, and especially the Hudson River Valley. He taught himself how to paint while apprenticing for a leather manufacturer. In 1827 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Academician.

He worked mostly in Philadelphia, but also lived and worked in Boston and New York.

Gallery

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  View of the Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia, from the Opposite Side of the Schuylkill River, 1824/26, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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  View of West Point, 1827, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
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  View of the Delaware Water Gap, 1827, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
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  Ruins in a Landscape, 1828
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  In the Catskills, 1836, Reynolda House Museum of American Art
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  View toward the Hudson River, 1839, Princeton University Art Museum
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  A River Glimpse, 1842–1850, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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  Landscape after Ruisdael, ca. 1846, Brooklyn Museum

See also

• List of Hudson River School artists

Further reading

• Goodyear, Frank, Jr. "Life and Art of Thomas Doughty." Master's thesis, University of Delaware, 1969.
• American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970.
• Walker, John Alan. "Thomas Doughty: Chronology and Checklist." Fine Art Source Material Newsletter 1 (January 1971): 5, no. 41.
• Goodyear, Frank, Jr. Thomas Doughty 1793-1856: An American Pioneer in Landscape Painting. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Philadelphia, 1973: 17, 26, no.28.
• Howat, John K. "The Thomas Doughty Exhibition." American Art Review 1 (January–February 1974):

External links

• An exhibition catalog available as a full-text PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries

Media related to Paintings by Thomas Doughty at Wikimedia Commons