The Brook in the Woods, Worthington Whittredge, oil on canvas, roughly 28 x 36 in. (71 x 91 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Whittredge was an American painter of the second generation Hudson RIver school active in the mid 19th and early 20th centuries.
He was fascinated with scenes of light making its way through the deep shadows of dense forest interiors. It was a subject he returned to many times.
Look at the depth he’s created with the light on more distant trunks behind the sihlouettes of the midground trees.
Compare this to The Trout Pool, also in the Met Museum.
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