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Article: Drawings in the Adirondack Museum.(various artists)
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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The American drawings collection in the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, spans a century from about 1840 to 1940. More than twenty artists documented the topography life of the region and the moods evoked by the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York State. Topographers, surveyors, and illustrators are among those represented, as well as painters who seem to have made their Adirondack drawings for their own sake rather than as preparatory studies for, paintings.
The earliest drawing in the collection is a panorama of Lake George on four sheets attributed to Edward Seager (Pl. I). It dates to the early 1840s when the region was not well mapped ...