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Mount Chocorua
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About this work
This image shows Mount Chocorua in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. William James Stillman was a friend of the English art critic John Ruskin and an enthusiastic follower of Ruskin’s belief that “All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.” In this piece, Stillman painted every element in careful detail to show its perfection, from the mossy rocks in the foreground to the patches of snow on the mountain peak.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineMount Chocorua. 1856. William James Stillman, born Schenectady, NY 1828-died Surrey, England 1901. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. Richard D. Bullock and museum purchase made possible by Walter Beck and Reverend F. Ward Denys. CC0.
