Artist Linton Park (1826 - 1906)

Crack-up of a Raft near Mahaffey

Datec. 1874

DimensionsSight: 22 3/4 × 34 5/8 in. (57.8 × 87.9 cm)

Object numberN0014.1973

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Museum Purchase

Photograph by Richard Walker

Label TextLinton Park came from a family that was among the first to settle in the wilds of Indiana County, Pennsylvania. He was a businessman and inventor, but primarily a painter best known for painting scenes of his life and region. His most celebrated work is the monumental and nostalgic painting Flax Scutching Bee at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The rafting scene exhibited here was one of four which hung in a loggers’ hotel in Burnside, Pennsylvania before 1907. According to family tradition, Park is the figure in shirtsleeves clinging to the raft in the foreground.

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