Hunter Museum of American Art

Analysis

Thomas Worthington Whittredge lived and worked in the thriving artist community of Cincinnati, traveled widely in Europe and America and eventually settled in New York City, near his close friend and painting compatriot Frederick Kensett. In this intimate scene, we are placed at stream's edge, near a fisherman, as we contemplate the quiet scene. He further enhances this intimate quality by creating cathedral-like arches with the trees so that the scene looks like an intimate nature chapel.