Art Lecture - AF Tait Artist of the Adks
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Few painters are so closely associated with images of the Adirondacks as Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1819-1905). His storytelling pictures of wildlife, sportsmen, landscape, and rural community life resonated with nineteenth-century Americans seeking respite from the fast pace of urban living.
Reproduced as prints and marketed to a mass audience, Tait's iconic paintings reflected and helped to create and perpetuate an image of the Adirondack wilderness as a sportsman's paradise, a place to find camaraderie among men and test one's mettle against the forces of nature. His images defined what is "Adirondack" about the Adirondacks in the public imagination and introduced a new dimension to American landscape and wildlife painting by portraying the interactions between wildlife and sportsmen.
Format: Powerpoint lecture, 50 minutes
(above image: American Speckled Brook Trout, 1864, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait)
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