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Swamp Landscape
Swamp Landscape
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Swamp Landscape

Artist Laura Woodward (American, 1834 - 1926)
Dateundated
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFrame: 30 x 49 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (76.2 x 125.7 x 3.8 cm)
Sight: 19 1/2 x 39 1/2 in. (49.5 x 100.3 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineThe Florida Art Collection, Gift of Samuel H. and Roberta T. Vickers
Object number2020.18.537
Collections
Visual DescriptionA flock of birds skims the surface of water dotted with waterlilies and wildflowers in the Everglades wetlands in Southern Florida, framed by palm trees and towering pines.
Jungle Path, Palm Beach Fla (Plack)
Jungle Path, Palm Beach Fla (Plack)
Laura Woodward
undated
Lake Worth
Lake Worth
Laura Woodward
undated
St. Johns Cove
St. Johns Cove
Laura Woodward
undated
View of Lake Worth
View of Lake Worth
Laura Woodward
undated
Florida Garden
Florida Garden
Laura Woodward
undated
Anastasia Island Lighthouse 1892
Anastasia Island Lighthouse 1892
Laura Woodward
1892
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
A vertical scroll painting shows a landscape with foreground pine trees on rocks. A body of water separates them from towering, mist-shrouded mountains in the background featuring a waterfall. A small figure is visible at the bottom right. Calligraphy and red seals are located in the upper right.
Figures in a Landscape
Hu Peiheng
c. 1945
An off-white print featuring the poem "Another August" By James Merrill in orange text on the left. Beside it is a soft, sweeping sketch of tall trees and a tiny figure on a path, rendered in pale blue, green, and brown. The poem reads: Pines. The white, ochre-pocked houses. Sky unflawed. Upon so much former strangeness a calm settles, glaze of custom to be neither shattered nor shattered by. Home. Home at last. Years past—blind, tattering wind, hail, tears—my head was in those clouds that now…
Another August
George Lockwood
1968
Byöbu or folding screen in two panels with a scene of the Medieval hero Yoshitune with his faithful retainer Tadanobu beneath snow laden pines.
Högan to Tadanobu
Hayashi Yüichi
1936
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
Shepherds of the Desert
Shepherds of the Desert
Laura Gilpin
Negative: 1934; print c. 1971

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