Kauterskill Clove (from Sketchbook of Landscape and Animal Subjects)

Thomas Hewes Hinckley

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hinckley painted landscapes chiefly as a background to his portraits of wild and domesticated animals. The sketchbook including this landscape appears to have been filled during a tour that Hinckley probably began near the Delaware Water Gap and extended north into the Catskill Mountains and Adirondacks of New York Sate. Few of the drawings in this book, however, can be linked to Hinckley’s known paintings after 1864, and the majority of them represent not merely selected motifs, but discrete compositions that often assume the character of engraved vignettes, such as this beautiful drawing of Kaaterskill Clove, a favorite subject of the Hudson River School of landscape painters.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art