Autumn in the Conway Meadows Looking Toward Mount Washington, 1858

Provenance

Spanierman Gallery, LLC, New York, New York
Robert Price
Private collection, New York, by descent from above

Exhibited

Spanierman Gallery, New York, New York, 110 Years of American Art: 1830–1940, October 15–
December 31, 2001
Albert Bierstadt in New York & New England, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, New York,
May 1–November 3, 2013; Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut, November 24, 2013–
March 2, 2014

Literature

110 Years of American Art: 1830–1940 (New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2001), 7, no. 1.
Annette Blaugrund, Albert Bierstadt in New York & New England (Catskill, NY: Thomas Cole National
Historic Site, 2013), 11–12, fig. 8.
Joyce A. Quinn and Susan L. Woodward, Earth’s Landscape: An Encyclopedia of the World’s Geographic
Features (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2015), n.p.

Related Works

Near North Conway, New Hampshire, ca. 1860, oil on canvas; Danforth Art Museum,Framingham,
Massachusetts
Moat Mountain, Intervale, New Hampshire, ca. 1862, oil on paper laid down on canvas, 19⅛ x 26⅛ inches;
The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire

Note

Albert Bierstadt visited the White Mountains of New Hampshire as early as 1852. He would
return to the area on several occasions, including in 1858 when he created this work. In this painting,
the artist depicts both Mount Kearsarge and Mount Washington with a serene meadow in the
foreground. Some scholars have noted that the deer in the scene appear to be European red deer and
that, although a hotel had been built on the summit of Mount Kearsarge, it does not resemble the ruins
that Bierstadt depicted, suggesting the artist took some liberties when creating his landscape.