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In the Nick of Time
184819th Century
29 in. x 36 in.
Alvan Fisher, (1792–1863)
Medium and Support:
oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum, Gift of The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company
Accession Number:
2002.1.57
One of America's first native landscape painters, Fisher evidently based "In the Nick of Time" from a passage in one of James Fenimore Cooper's novels. A pair of hunters silhouetted against a mountain lake take aim at a mountain lion that hovers menacingly over a mother and her two small cildren resting at the base of a rock. Two dogs are poised with their complete attention on the mountain lion. "In the Nick of Time" expresses perfectly the romanticism of mid-19th century America, characterized by Cooper's descriptions of the adventures found in the American wilderness.
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Dimensions
- Frame Dimensions: 35 in. x 42 1/4 in. x 2 in. Measured by Wholean, Nicole
- image only Dimensions: 29 x 36 in.
Provenance History
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Owner Name: Vose Galleries
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