Cooperstown from Three Mile Point

Date1850-1860

DimensionsSight: 27 5/8 × 38 5/8 in. (70.2 × 98.1 cm)

Object numberN0146.1971

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Bequest of William Festus Morgan

Photograph by Richard Walker

Label TextWhile Cooperstown From Three Mile Point is painted in the manner of the Hudson River School with a detailed foreground and carefully depicted perspective, Mignot chose the bucolic setting of Cooperstown as a subject rather than the traditional wilderness scene. The various buildings of the town are carefully delineated. In the right foreground is a hops field, the cash crop peculiar to the limestone soils of Otsego County. The lone figure carrying a fly rod (painted by Gollmann) is traditionally said to be Judge Levi C. Turner, a prominent resident of Lake Street, Cooperstown, and an avid fisherman. Family tradition maintains that Turner commissioned this painting. Louis Remy Mignot was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and was the only southern painter of the Hudson River School. Mignot traveled to Ecuador in 1857 with Frederic Church, and was influenced by Church's elaborate interpretation of nature.

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