Worthington Whittredge

Thomas Worthington Whittredge’s artistic curiosity and versatility kept him at the forefront of American art throughout the whole of the nineteenth century. As one of the most revered members of the Hudson River School, Whittredge painted landscapes across the United States, taking part in the spirited ethos of Manifest Destiny. Yet he was also a profoundly open artist who rejected stylistic distinctions and drew from a wide array of sources. Throughout his long career, he remained a vital artistic force by combining new influences into an ever-deepening channel of expression. Moving among the idioms of the Hudson River School, tonalism, and Impressionism, Whittredge’s oeuvre charts the history of nineteenth-century American art.

Whittredge served as president of the National Academy of Design and won medals from the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876, the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901, and the St. Louis Exposition of 1904. The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, the Albany Institute of History and Art, and the Cincinnati Art Museum held a major retrospective of the artist’s work and life between 1969 and 1970. His paintings are also in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the White House.

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