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Thomas Worthington Whittredge (May 22, 1820 – February 25, 1910) was an American artist of the Hudson River School. Whittredge was a highly regarded artist of his time, and was friends with several leading Hudson River School artists including Albert Bierstadt and Sanford Robinson Gifford.
May 18, 2024 · Worthington Whittredge (born May 22, 1820, Springfield, Ohio, U.S.—died February 25, 1910, Summit, New Jersey) was an American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River school. Whittredge, originally a house painter, took up portraiture and landscape painting about 1838.
The five oil paintings by Whittredge in the NMAA [now Smithsonian American Art Museum] span his artistic career—from his youthful sojourn in Europe to the last decade of his life—and reveal the artist's substantial talent and rather wide range of stylistic and thematic interests.
Artist: Worthington Whittredge (Springfield, Ohio 1820–1910 Summit, New Jersey) Date: ca. 1885–86. Culture: American. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 28 x 36 in. (71.1 x 91.4 cm) Credit Line: Gift of Maurice J. Cotter, in memory of his mother, Muriel Josephine Cotter (1902–2003), 2003. Accession Number: 2003.435.
Artist: Worthington Whittredge (Springfield, Ohio 1820–1910 Summit, New Jersey) Date: 1870. Culture: American. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 36 x 27 1/8 in. (91.4 x 68.9 cm) Credit Line: Gift of Colonel Charles A. Fowler, 1921. Accession Number: 21.115.4
Supported through the commissions of his Cincinnati patrons, Whittredge travelled in 1849 to Europe. He journeyed through Belgium and Germany to Paris where he spent the winter. Whittredge visited the French village of Barbizon but, at the time, was not impressed with the painters working there.
Thomas Worthington Whittredge[1] (May 22, 1820 - February 25, 1910) was an American artist of the Hudson River School. Whittredge was a highly regarded artist of his time, and was friends with several leading Hudson River School artists including Albert Bierstadt and Sanford Robinson Gifford.
