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Painting
1985.061.0001
Rapids of the Au Sable
Brooklyn-based artist Hugh Antoine Fisher, also known as Hugo Anton Fisher, painted this scene sometime before he moved his family to California about 1881. Fisher was the son and grandson of artists, and his own son, Harrison, became a well-known il... View Full Record
Painting
1970.096.0001
Untitled: Blue Mountain Lake
Depicts a lake with a fallen tree trunk broken laying in the water on rocks. In the background the lake continues with shoreline of dense trees and mountains. Blue sky with few wispy clouds.... View Full Record
Painting
1970.208.0008
Trappers Hut, Roaring Brook
Watercolor, monochromatic: view of a log cabin set in the woods. A chimney rises from the right side of the roof. A tall, bare tree obscures the back of the cabin.... View Full Record
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1970.208.0010
Spruce
Watercolor, monochromatic: view of a tall spruce tree in a slight clearing in the woods.... View Full Record
Painting
1988.017.0001
September Snow - Loon
Depicts a lake with snowy rocks in the background. A loon swims to the left. From exhibition label: Connecticut artist Allen Blagden first learned to paint from his father, artist and art teacher Thomas Blagden. The Blagdens summered on Upper S... View Full Record
Painting
1988.113.0001
Untitled: Lean-To
Depicts an open log structure in the woods, with a 3/4 view of the structure. It is part of a framed triptych attributed, but not confirmed to the artist Frederic Remington. Nature-in particular, the forests, lakes, streams, and wildlife of the Ad... View Full Record
Painting
1995.007.0001
Untitled - The Artist's House On Lake George
Most artists came to Lake George for the summer or for shorter visits to fill sketchbooks with subjects for full-scale paintings to be executed in their studios during the winter. However, John Henry Hill, grandson and son of American artists, actual... View Full Record
Painting
2015.047.0014
A Bit on Gill Creek, Gill Brook, Adirondacks
Monochrome watercolor. A Bit on Gill Creek, Gill Brook, Adirondacks.... View Full Record
Painting
2015.047.0009
On the Lower Saranac Lake, Adirondacks
Monochrome watercolor view of McKenzie Mountain. On the Lower Saranac Lake, Adirondacks. ... View Full Record
Painting
2016.014.0004
Home for Loon
Watercolor painting of a common loon floating on water. The reflection of the loon depicts the scales of a yellow perch.... View Full Record
Painting
2016.061.0001
Along the Way
Painting. Watercolor painting of two kayaks beached among rocks at the edge of the water.... View Full Record
Painting
1958.347.0001
Eleventh Mountain
Landscape with pines in foreground, suggestion of body of water on right, rising to background of twin mountain peaks and clouds.... View Full Record
Painting
1987.001.0019
Untitled: Trees
Depicts a green forest with brown tree trunks and a lighter green floor. From exhibition label: Paul Bransom was a world famous wildlife artist. Over his sixty year career he illustrated magazines and nearly fifty books including Jack London's... View Full Record
Painting
1963.076.0001
Old Camper, Adirondacks
Man with frying pan in left hand over smoking "barrel" cookstove in front of strange lean-to shelter that forms long diagonals up the picture behind the man. A wall of boards parallel to surface forms a diagonal penetrating the "roof" of lean-to. G... View Full Record
Painting
1966.059.0001
The Shaker Place
The foreground of the picture is all cleared space with yellow grass, two dirt roads run diagonally from the left and right corners to the log houses in the center of the painting. A flag and pole and a person on a swing are at the far right. Two rid... View Full Record
Painting
1967.114.0005
Putnam Camp, Keene Valley, Adirondacks
The Camp occupies the center of the painting and is at the base of a mountain which rises directly behind and to the upper left. Done in blues, greens, reds and yellows.... View Full Record
Painting
1970.199.0003
Untitled: View From Scott's Clearing, Adirondacks, #4
Depicts a clearing in the foreground with a lake nestled in a forest. In the background are mountains. The sky is full of clouds. The mountains depicted are Wright, Algonquin, Wallface, Street, and Nye from the north.... View Full Record
Painting
1972.044.0015
Road From Corries [sic] To Spectacle Pond
This unidentified artist depicted the road from Coreys, between Tupper Lake and Saranac Lake, to the three Spectacle Ponds, better known as Stony Creek Ponds.... View Full Record
Painting
1977.083.0001
Road To Chapel Pond
Depicts a dirt road with a wooden fence on the right and boulders to the left. Dense green forest surrounds the road. In the background are mountains. White fluffy clouds in the sky.... View Full Record
Painting
1978.127.0001
Ausable River
Depictions of a rock formation in a river. Water is flowing over the rocks and around a tall boulder. Large boulders on the left. In the background is a rock wall with some faint vegetation growing. Browns and grays dominate this painting.... View Full Record
Painting
1986.038.0001
Untitled: Forest Scene
Depicts a forest scene with many shades of green.... View Full Record
Painting
1991.053.0005
James Mcnaughton (Roosevelt) Cottage
Depicts scene of the James McNaughton cottage where President Roosevelt stayed when he visited Tahawus in 1901. Grassy field and flowers recede to glacial rocks. A path moves from left middle ground to right of center. A female figure is walking o... View Full Record
Painting
2001.003.0001
Garnet Lake
Abstract lake scene with bare trees and marsh. Colors used consist of blues, greens, browns and grays.... View Full Record
Painting
1997.049.0001
The Compound in September
Depicts a view of the Potter Family dwellings and out buildings at Brandreth Park.... View Full Record
Painting
2002.017.0001
Blue Mountain Lake
Painting, depicts a scene of Blue Mountain, with Blue Mountain Lake in the middle ground. Beach with sunbathers and swimmers in the foreground.... View Full Record
Painting
2002.066.0002
Adirondack Landscape
Depicts a landscape with very angular trees in the foreground and a several buildings and mountains in the background. ... View Full Record
Painting
2003.004.0001
Tahawus Mines Demolition
Depicts a view of buildings at Tahawus; documenting the demolition of National Lead Co. buildings at Tahawus by Earl Fletcher and Co. of Tupper Lake. ... View Full Record
Painting
2003.013.0002
Floodwood
Winter woods scene with a river that has cut and broken logs floating.... View Full Record
Painting
2004.006.0001
Buttermilk Falls, 1988
Depicts a winter scene of Buttermilk Falls, Long Lake. Thick ice to the left and a forest on the far side of the water.... View Full Record
Painting
2008.012.0001
Keene Valley from Cemetery Railing, Looking East
Depicts a green valley with trees in middleground. A grey path can be seen in the valley. Mountains in the background. ... View Full Record
Painting
2009.034.0002
Snow Shoe Rabbit in Adirondacks
Depicts a snowshow hare under a snowy tree limb.... View Full Record
Painting
2010.082.0001
Opalescent II
Depicts a river scene with large boulders on river banks, green trees at sides and mountains in background. Information from gallery: "Opalescent II was created from a raft on a 1985 trip down the upper portion of the Hudson River. Don Nice spent... View Full Record
Painting
2010.101.0001
Cloudburst Over Wildflower Field
Depicts a grassy green field with dark green mountains in the background. The sky is grey and blue with thick clouds. ... View Full Record
Painting
2011.050.0001
Adirondacks, Near Owls Head
Depicts a valley with green hills and mountains. A tall mountain in the background with orangy-red sky .... View Full Record
Painting
2011.048.0001
[Self-Portrait]
Depicts J. Howard Doig standing on a large rock in the Moose River holding a large fish in one hand and a fishing rod in the other. A fishing creel hangs around his shoulders. A pile or jam of logs rests on rocks in river in background.... View Full Record