Daniel Huntington
Rondout Kill, Afternoon
1837
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Framed: 28 3/4 x 34 3/4 x 4 1/8 in. (73 x 88.3 x 10.5 cm) Unframed: 18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm) SIght: 17 3/8 x 23 1/2 in. (44.1 x 59.7 cm)
Credit Line
Purchase with funds provided by 'Pictura: Adventures in Art'
Object Number
1952.115
During the late 1830s, Daniel Huntington painted views of the countryside in New York State and northern New Jersey, showing some of them at various New York exhibition venues. This canvas captures a scene near Rondout Kill, a tributary of the Hudson River. “Kill” is from the old Dutch kille, meaning creek or riverbed. Exhibited at the Art Union in 1850, the painting was described in cozy terms: “A Cottage sends up its smoke among the deep shade of trees – a cove of still water, cattle, and a glimpse of the hills about Rosedale, make up the picture.” A version of this painting was engraved by S. V. Hunt and published in The Home Book of the Picturesque two years later.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1952; The Bland Gallery, New York; probably John A. Dix, New York
Probably, Art Union Building, New York, "Paintings by Daniel Huntington," N.A., 1850, no. 38
Probably George W. Bethune, 'Art in the United States,' "The Home Book of the Picturesque, New York, 1852, p. 49.
"BMA News," October-November 1952, p. 8, ill. p. 7.
Howard S. Merritt, 'American Landscape Paintings in the Museum Collections,' "BMA News Quarterly," Vol. XXV, no. 2, Winter 1962, pp. 6-7, ill.
Sona K. Johnston, "American Paintings 1750-1900 from the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1983, no. 66, p. 86, ill.
William H. Gerdts, 'American Landscape Painting: Critical Judgments, 1730-1845,' "The American Art Journal," vol. XVII, no. 1, Winter 1985, fig. 31, ill. p. 52.
Inscribed: Face: signed and dated, lower right, "D. Huntington / 1837" Back: "Painted by Daniel Huntington"
