It was completed in the early 1870s, during a highly productive decade for the artist. The works he made during the 1870s would establish him as one of the greatest American painters.

Here, he is far from the realism and expressiveness of his later, captivating literary descriptions of pastoral culture from On the Mountain Pass. In the mid-1870s, Witkiewicz looked at the ...

More narrowly defined, “Realism” is often viewed as the first modern art movement.It emerged in France in the 1840s as a rejection of traditional forms of art and literature deemed obsolete in ...