Artwork Details
- Title
- Mountains in Colorado
- Artist
- Date
- 1870
- Location
- Dimensions
- 10 1⁄4 x 14 in. (25.9 x 35.7 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Orrin Wickersham June
- Mediums Description
- oil on paper mounted on paperboard
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Landscape — mountain
- Western
- Landscape — Colorado
- Landscape — rocks
- Object Number
- 1967.136.6
Artwork Description
John Frederick Kensett painted peaceful views in muted colors to express a sense of quiet reflection. American artists in the nineteenth century often painted the mountains of the American West rising dramatically from the Great Plains. Kensett, however, chose to paint from inside the mountains, showing successive ridges marching toward the Continental Divide. The dull browns, greens, and grays of the scene evoke the cold, thin atmosphere of Colorado’s high altitudes.