Description:
Charles Louis Heyde (New York 1822 - 1892) oil on canvas, The Old Toll Bridge, Deerfield MA, signed lower right, CL Heyde.
Label Text:
Building a Collection, September 27, 2025-February 23, 2025: The Hudson River School artist Charles Louis Heyde traveled north to the Connecticut River Valley and southern Vermont to capture the bucolic natural scenery of New England. In these three landscapes, Heyde focused on the Greenfield River, the Wapping section of Deerfield, MA, and the bridge from Cheapside to what is now Montague City. Similar to other Hudson River School artists, Heyde directly observed the environment and depicted the truthful elements of the landscape, including the rolling farm fields, distant mount ranges, and hints of fall foliage. Through his painting practice, he intended to represent the beauty of nature and its bucolic virtues. In these scenes, he still included signs of the encroaching industrialization in the Deerfield area, including the railroad tracks, which entered the Deerfield landscape in 1844. After painting in the region for a season, Heyde often returned to Brooklyn to complete his work and exhibit the New England landscapes. With his own focus upon nature and the environment, the American poet Walt Whitman was drawn to Heyde’s work, and the two developed a friendship.
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