Thomas Chambers
American, born England, 1808 - 1869Village in the Foothills, ca. 1850
Not on view
Oil on canvas over board
Dimensions22 1/2 × 30 3/8 in. (57.2 × 77.2 cm)
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1972.73
Chambers was drawn to landscape themes and was especially taken with the Hudson River Valley area, although his oeuvre includes other locations as well as river, harbor, and marine scenes. In addition, like many itinerant artists of the time, he also regularly executed works whose compositions are taken from the work of other artists or from prints.
Chambers's Village in the Foothills represents nature in an imaginative and highly stylized manner. The source of this work has not been identified. It is possible that it is a composite of several views or that it derives purely from the artist's imagination. More likely, however, it originates in a print, as the setting, with mountains rising sharply from the plain, seems more European than American.
