View of Cherry Mountain, New Hampshire, 1878

Provenance

Private collection, Connecticut

Sale, Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts, May 10, 2025, Lot 24

Related Works

View of Washington from Arlington, ca. 1908, oil on canvas, 36⅛ x 60 inches; The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Harvesting Near San Jose, California, 1874, chromolithograph, 36⅛ x 60 inches, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

Note

John Ross Key, grandson of Francis Scott Key—the songwriter of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’—frequently depicted New Hampshire’s pastoral landscapes, focusing on the fertile intervales and incorporating vignettes of rural life, including hay wagons and grazing sheep. He was awarded a medal for excellence in landscape painting at the U.S. Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876.[1]

[1] Kimberly Orcutt, Power and Posterity: American Art at Philadelphia’s 1876 Centennial Exhibition (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018), 219.