File:Crossing the River Platte by Worthington Whittredge, 1871.jpg

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Worthington Whittredge: Crossing the River Platte  wikidata:Q22915472 reasonator:Q22915472
Artist
Worthington Whittredge  (1820–1910)  wikidata:Q1370512
 
Worthington Whittredge
Alternative names
Thomas Worthington Whittredge
Description American painter and photographer
Date of birth/death 22 May 1820 Edit this at Wikidata 25 February 1910 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Springfield Summit
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artist QS:P170,Q1370512
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Crossing the River Platte
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre landscape art Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1871
date QS:P571,+1871-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 102.4 cm (40.3 in); width: 153.2 cm (60.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,102.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,153.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q35525
Current location
Washington, D.C., United States
Accession number
967.602.1 (White House) Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Notes

Notes from Kloss, William, et al. Art in the White House: A Nation's Pride. Washington, D.C.: The White House Historical Association, 2008:
"Crossing the River Platte [was] painted from sketches made at Denver, Colorado. It evidently is a mirror-image variant of Crossing the Ford, Platte River, Colorado . . . .

"The placid appearance of the scene is set by the river, which lies across the bottom of the picture . . . . Beyond it the Indian encampment is planted snugly among the cluster of trees. The flat sweep of the prairie is measured by the sure placement of trees and smaller elements. . . .

"[G]radations of the haze-veiled mountains, among which Longs Peak is prominent, round out the distance but leave the foreground dominant. . . .

". . .The elegiac mood of the painting may be interpreted as an ironic meditation upon the ideal harmony between the Indian and the land, and upon the continuing displacement and restriction of the Native Americans."
Source/Photographer The White House Historical Association
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