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Stand of cypress trees with Spanish moss and thickets of palms and water in the distance.
Florida Swamp
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Florida Swamp

Artist William Glackens (American, 1870 - 1938)
Date1870-1938
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFrame: 24 1/4 x 20 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (61.6 x 52.1 x 6.4 cm)
Sight: 19 1/2 x 15 1/4 in. (49.5 x 38.7 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineThe Florida Art Collection, Gift of Samuel H. and Roberta T. Vickers
Object number2020.18.142
Collections
Visual DescriptionStand of cypress trees with Spanish moss and thickets of palms and water in the distance.
Houses, New Hampshire
Houses, New Hampshire
William Glackens
undated
Luminist landscape of a Florida marsh/wetland at sunset. Cows graze and a bird/crane stands in the mid-ground; palm trees and Spanish moss-covered trees border the composition.
Tropical Sunset: Florida Marsh
Martin Johnson Heade
c. 1885-1890
Impressionist landscape with an alligator emerging from a pond and a Spanish moss-covered tree in the foreground and two hunters walking among tall grasses and palms in the midground.
Hunting Alligators
Frederick Carl Frieseke
c. 1926
A man and a dog walk on a path through a wooded forest bathed in the golden glow of sunset. Palm trees and other trees hanging with Spanish moss tower overhead while palm fronds and other brush are at ground-level.
Sunset Near Low Creek, Florida
Herman Herzog
c.1900
Scene from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Yearling, with a boy (Jody) leading a fawn/deer (Flag) along a path lined with palms, cacti, and grasses. Spanish moss hangs from trees and other trees line the distance.
Jody and Flag
N. C. Wyeth
1938
Old Country Store, Mandarin, Florida
Old Country Store, Mandarin, Florida
Emmett John Fritz
undated
Post Office, Mandarin
Post Office, Mandarin
George Bertrand Mitchell
undated
A painting of a green swamp with tall, moss-draped trees. A large, dark alligator rests on a narrow strip of land in the murky water. The foreground features vibrant green plants and small pink flowers.
Alligator in Swamp
Edith Harrison
undated
Two fishermen steer their skiffs through the river. A third figure, a woman, stands in a boat near a “chickee,” a Seminole structure composed of a palmetto thatch over a cypress log frame. Sparse trees line the river under a sky filled with large white clouds..
Florida River Scene with Seminoles
Ernest Lawson
1920
A framed painting of a dense, dark forest with a prominent leaning palm tree in the center. Below the trees, a narrow body of water reflects a bright patch of sky visible through the canopy.
Florida Swamp
Henry Arthur Elkins
undated
Dirt road lined with orange trees in late afternoon. In the distance, pine trees and palms on the horizon under a cloudy sky.
Road through the Orange Grove
Albert Ernest Backus
undated
Swamp Landscape
Swamp Landscape
Laura Woodward
undated

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