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Untitled (cows descending hillside)
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About this work
During the 1850s and 1860s, Edward Mitchell Bannister visited the Boston Athenaeum, where he likely saw the work of American artist William Morris Hunt, who had painted in the Barbizon woods of France. Hunt’s serene paintings of the French countryside were prized by art collectors and influenced many Boston-area artists, and it is likely that Bannister hoped such scenes would bring him similar success. (Hartigan, Sharing Traditions, 1985)
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineUntitled (cows descending hillside). 1881. Edward Mitchell Bannister, born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Louis Glaser. CC0.
