Hudson River Landscape, oil on panel, 11"x17", old label verso from Kleeman Galleries stating title of "Hudson River Landscape" and artist of Thomas Doughty

Born in Philadelphia. Lived in New York. Was first American to work as a landscapist. Known for painting landscapes, rivers, cities, farms, harbors, fishermen, and boats. Painter, lithographer, Hudson River. Illustrated animals and birds in journal, Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports.

Exhibited: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

In the collection of: Birmingham Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Everson Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; Columbus Museum of Art; Allen Memorial Art Museum; Butler Institute of American Art; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Carnegie Museum of Art; Gibbes Museum of Art; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; Brigham Young University Museum; San Diego Museum of Art; de Young Memorial Museum; Wadsworth Athenaeum; Yale University Art; Lyman Allyn Museum; National Gallery of Art; National Portrait Gallery; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Corcoran Gallery of Art; Delaware Art Museum; Georgia Museum of Art;High Museum of Art; Mead Art Museum; Boston Athenaeum; Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Worcester Art Museum; Baltimore Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of Art; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Ackland Art Museum; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery; Joslyn Art Museum; Newark Museum; Brooklyn Museum of Art; National Academy of Design; New York Historical Society