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In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Painted during the first year of the Civil War, this idyllic view of a farm near Dobb's Ferry, New York, proclaimed to Northern viewers the success of an agricultural system in which farmers worked their own land. The American flag hanging beside the homestead subtly alludes to the war. Such a scene was thus a critique of Southern slavery. Yet the beauty of the landscape, the wagon carrying a bountiful harvest of hay and the long afternoon shadows, also offers an optimistic image of harmony between man and nature.
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Henry Ary|American Painter — The Hudson River Valley near Hu
Robert S. Duncanson (American, 1821–1872) — View of Lake Pep
American 19th Century — View at West Point
John Frederick Kensett (American, 1816–1872) — An October Da
Asher Brown Durand — Pastoral Landscape
Victor de Grailly (French, 1804–1889) — The Oxbow Seen from 
Thomas Doughty — View on the Hudson in Autumn
Théodore Rousseau — A Meadow Bordered by Trees
Homer Dodge Martin (American, 1836–1897) — In the Housatonic
George Inness — Catskill Mountains
James McDougal Hart (American, born Scotland, 1828–1901) — M
Thomas Doughty (American, 1793–1856) — View of a Lake
