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An avid outdoorsman, Boston-based artist Alvan Fisher took frequent sketching trips around New England, both to unpopulated swathes of wilderness and to rural areas on the outskirts of his home city. Boston Landscape dates from the artist’s first year of professional accounting and presents a romantic view of New England agrarian life. Framed by feathery trees and undulating bedrock, men gather by the river for farm chores, sport, and to socialize. Working several decades before the better-known Hudson River School artists, Fisher heralded a new form of nationalistic art, painting harmonious images of landscape, labor, and daily life.

-Hannah Blunt, Associate Curator, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (Sept. 2016)

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