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Hicks’ painting fits seamlessly with the museum’s exceptional American art collection which features not only regional, but also local works of importance that celebrate the area’s beauty, history, and landscape.
Thomas Hicks is a well-known American portrait and landscape painter who was born in Newtown, PA. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and abroad. He settled in New York City in 1849 and became one of the most outstanding portraitists of his day. He is also the cousin of the famed folk art painter Edward Hicks, who is most recognized for his many versions of the Peaceable Kingdom.
Artist
Thomas Hicks
(1823 - 1890)
Otsego Lake
Date1862
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsSight: 28 5/8 × 48 3/4 × 3 3/4 in. (72.7 × 123.8 × 9.5 cm)
Object numberN0018.2006(01)
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Museum Purchase With Funds Provided in Part by Jane Forbes Clark. The conservation of Otsego Lake by Thomas Hicks was made possible by the NYSCA/GHHN Conservation Treatment Grant Program administered by Greater Hudson Heritage Network with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextThis magnificent panorama of the northern end of Otsego Lake depicts the village of Springfield, Mount Wellington, and Hyde Bay much as they appeared just after James Fenimore Cooper’s time. The artist also paid homage to the importance of the lake in mid-19th-century outdoor recreation, as he depicted a variety of watercraft in the foreground and on the lake.Hicks’ painting fits seamlessly with the museum’s exceptional American art collection which features not only regional, but also local works of importance that celebrate the area’s beauty, history, and landscape.
Thomas Hicks is a well-known American portrait and landscape painter who was born in Newtown, PA. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and abroad. He settled in New York City in 1849 and became one of the most outstanding portraitists of his day. He is also the cousin of the famed folk art painter Edward Hicks, who is most recognized for his many versions of the Peaceable Kingdom.
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