Landscape

Maker Hermann Dudley Murphy (American, 1867 - 1945)

Collections

ClassificationsPAINTINGS

Dateca. 1903

Mediumoil on canvas

Dimensions28 x 69 in. (71.1 x 175.3 cm.)

SignedSigned and dated on verso: 19 [artist's cipher] 03 / H.D. Murphy

InscribedSigned and dated on verso: 19 [artist's cipher] 03 / H.D. Murphy

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds from the Art Collectors' Council, Margery and Maurice Katz, Charles and Nancy Munger, and the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation

Status

On view

Label TextThe Boston-based artist Hermann Dudley Murphy exerted an enormous influence on the look and presentation of American paintings in the early years of the 20th century. The fluid brushwork and subtle gradations of color in Landscape reflect the influence of the Tonalist movement. The scene depicts mountains near Woodstock, New York, where Murphy taught at the Byrdcliffe Art Colony during the summers from 1903 through 1905.
Murphy's belief that a painting and its frame make a single artistic statement was shared by proponents of the Aesthetic Movement. Dissatisfied with the frames available in Boston, Murphy began making his own and, in 1903, founded the frame company Carrig-Rohane. The combination of his monumental Landscape with the frame that Murphy made specifically for it exemplifies his lifelong desire to integrate art and design.

Object number2006.8