biografía de Thomas DOUGHTY (1793-1856)

Lugar de nacimiento: Philadelphia, PA

Lugar de defunción: NYC

Direcciones: Philadelphia, (1793-1832); Boston (1832-37); England (1837-39); Newburgh, NY (1839-40; NYC (1841-on)

Profesión: Landscape painter and lithographer

Estudios: briefly with Thomas Sully; night school drawing course

Exposiciones: Boston Athenaeum; American Academy; NAD; PAFA, 1822-63; Maryland Hist. Soc.; Chester Harding's Gal.; and several British and French galleries; Paris Salon, 1847; Brooklyn AA, 1861, 1872, 1875; 1876; PAFA, 1973 (retrospective)

Asociaciones: PAFA, 1824; NAD, 1827 (hon member)

Obra: MMA; PAFA; Brooklyn Museum; Corcoran Gallery; Peabody Institute, Baltimore; NYHS; Shelburne (VT) Mus; Calif Palace Legion Honor; Detroit IA; NY State Hist. Assn; Newark Mus; Harvard Univ.

Comentarios: During a period when most artists could make a living only from portraiture, Doughty was one of the first American artists to devote himself to landscape painting. He was first apprenticed to a leather merchant and worked as a leather currier in Philadelphia until 1820. Thereafter, he quickly won critical acclaim for his lyrical and bucolic landscapes of the rivers and mountains of Pennsylvania, New York"s Hudson River Valley, and New England. His compositions are often marked by their "quiet," usually showing a solitary figure, sailboat, or cottage. After 1841, he lived in NYC except for a brief stay in New Orleans (1844), a second trip to Europe (1845-46) and a brief residence in western New York (1852-54). A prolific artist, Doughty exhibited frequently and sold many paintings through the Apollo Association and the American Art-Union. He was among the earliest artists to reproduce his landscapes as lithographs, in his popular series, Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports, a monthly published in Philadelphia (1830-34) with his brother, John.

Fuentes: G&W; Howard N. Doughty's manuscript Life and Works of Thomas Doughty," on deposit at New-York Historical Society; DAB; Clement and Hutton; Peters, America on Stone; Cowdrey, NAD; Cowdrey, AA & AAU; Rutledge, PA; Rutledge, MHS; Swan, BA; Graves, Dictionary.. More recently, see Frank Goodyear Thomas Doughty, 1793-1856, An American Pioneer in Landscape Painting (PAFA, 1973); Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 112; Campbell, New Hampshire Scenery, 48-50; Muller, Paintings and Drawings at the Shelburne Museum, 58 (w/repros.); 300 Years of American Art, vol. 1, 112; Falk, Exh. Record Series.