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Painting
Genesee River
David Johnson, (New York, NY, 1827 - 1908, Walden, NY)
Johnson, David
United States
1827 - 1908
Male
15 5/8 x 22 1/2 in. (39.7 x 57.2 cm)
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Oil
Oil
1888
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1888
1800-1900, 19th century, cows, landscapes, paintings, rivers, trees in art, views of Rochester & western New York
Painting
This pastoral scene shows cows wading at a bend in the Genesee River while their herder lounges on the ground at the left. It was painted by David Johnson, an artist from New York City who specialized in Genesee landscapes in the mid-19th century, a time when few artists were making the journey upstate.
The name Genesee originates with the Seneca people, meaning “beautiful or pleasant valley.” The rich soil of the valley and the abundance of the river has made this region a desirable location to live for centuries. This painting was made almost 100 years after the Canandaigua Treaty of 1794, in which the United States of America established the Seneca Nation’s land rights for Western New York with the Genesee River as the eastern boundary, Lake Ontario as the northern boundary, and Niagara River as the western boundary. Many subsequent violations and treaties slowly encroached upon these rights; today only three tracts of land are left to the Seneca in the region, including the Cattaraugus Reservation.
[Gallery label text, 2021]
initialed, lower leftverso, visible before reliningremoved from backing, now in curatorial file
1969.64
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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