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Exhibition History" Paintings of Light and Life: American Impressionism," Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY, May 26, 2012 - September 16, 2012.
Artist
Allen Tucker
(1866 - 1939)
Ice Harvesting
Date1910
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsSight: 24 3/8 × 29 3/8 in. (61.9 × 74.6 cm)
Object numberN0031.1965
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Allen Tucker Memorial
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextFor Tucker, as for many of his fellow American Impressionists working in a period of great progress and change, nostalgia for a simpler way of life was a popular theme. Harvesting ice was a major industry in nineteenth-century New England. But when Tucker painted this canvas in 1910, natural ice harvesting was in decline. The development of artificial ice manufacturing in the mid-nineteenth century made it possible for ice to be produced year round in factories, and the subsequent invention and popularization of the electric refrigerator in the early twentieth century enabled people to make their own ice at home.Exhibition History" Paintings of Light and Life: American Impressionism," Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY, May 26, 2012 - September 16, 2012.
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