A Calm Watering Place—Extensive and Boundless Scene with Cattle

Artist
Alvan Fisher
Year
1816
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
78 × 102.2 cm
Subject
Movement

A Calm Watering Place by Alvan Fisher is a pastoral landscape showing cattle gathered at a serene watering spot beneath an expansive sky. Fisher was one of the earliest American-born professional landscape painters, helping to establish the American landscape tradition before the Hudson River School.