River Bank
by Albert Fitch Bellows
Albert Fitch Bellows (1829-1883), No. 3897, was a painter, most of whose work was in the style of the Hudson River School. He also made a number of etchings in the same style. Bellows studied first at Antwerp in 1856, before returning to the United States where he settled in New York. While there he became a member of the National Academy and painted The River Bank in 1861, which depicts familiar themes of the American landscape artist of the era - the immensity of nature, the fertility of the land, and through the inclusion of a symbolic church, the divine power.
Albert Fitch Bellows
American, 1829-1883
The River Bank
oil on canvas
16-3/4" x 28"
Collection of the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia South
Carolina. Museum Purchase with funds partially provided by
Ethel S. Brody
CMA 1997.10