East Hampton, '75
1875
19th Century
6 3/4 in. x 10 1/8 in.
Robert Cranell Minor,
American,
(April 30, 1839–August 3, 1904)
Medium and Support:
graphite on paper
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum: Purchase
Accession Number:
1982.122.2
Robert Miner was strongly attracted to the work of the French Barbizon painters whose landscapes were based on the immediate experience of the natural world. Working in the Forest of Fontainebleau, these artists had fostered the growth of "plein-air" painting. To further his art studies, Minor went to live in Barbizon in the early 1870s and then traveled through the countryside of Holland and Italy before returning home to New York City in 1874 or 1875. The latter year was the occasion for a visit to East Hampton during which he executed this pencil drawing of the edge of a farm. Minor eventually settled in Waterford, Connecticut and had a fleeting association with the Lyme art colony, exhibiting with them in their 1903 exhibition at the local library.