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A loosely brushed watercolor landscape painting of a breezy green field of hay and a cloudy but bright blue sky. In the midground, peasants and horses work the hayfields.
A loosely brushed watercolor landscape painting of a breezy green field of hay and a cloudy but bright blue sky. In the midground, peasants and horses work the hayfields.
A loosely brushed watercolor landscape painting of a breezy green field of hay and a cloudy but bright blue sky. In the midground, peasants and horses work the hayfields.
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  • A loosely brushed watercolor landscape painting of a breezy green field of hay and a cloudy but bright blue sky. In the midground, peasants and horses work the hayfields.
  • A loosely brushed watercolor landscape painting of a breezy green field of hay and a cloudy but bright blue sky. In the midground, peasants and horses work the hayfields.
  • A loosely brushed watercolor landscape painting of a breezy green field of hay and a cloudy but bright blue sky. In the midground, peasants and horses work the hayfields.

David Cox the Elder

The Hayfield

Description

Maker

David Cox the Elder (English, 1783-1859)

Title

The Hayfield

Year

1833

Medium

  • Watercolor and touches of graphite on wove paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Watercolor and touches of graphite on wove paper

Materials

watercolor

Dimensions

35.2 x 50.5 cm (13 7/8 x 19 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

LL: in watercolor, signed "David Cox 1833"

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

71.153.24

Type

  • Drawings and Watercolors

Projects & Publications

Publications

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A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

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Selection II: British Watercolors and Drawings from the Museum's Collection

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Selected Works

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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Drawing Closer
Four Hundred Years of Drawing from the RISD Museum
Mar 12, 2022 – Sep 04, 2022

Label copy

An idyllic scene of country labor takes place beneath a bright summer sky dappled with windswept clouds. Following the conventions of Dutch landscape art, David Cox set the horizon line low, allowing the sky to occupy almost two thirds of the sheet. This division is reinforced by his broad application of monochrome washes for the sky-where the clouds are reserved white paper-and short dense brushstrokes for the foreground. One of the most highly skilled watercolorists of his time, Cox here exhibits his particular sensitivity in rendering atmospheric effects.

Luminous Landscapes
British Watercolors from the Museum's Collection
May 27, 2005 – Aug 14, 2005

Label copy

Cox’s reputation rests on his atmospheric watercolors of Britain, particularly its meadows and moorlands under a broad expanse of sky. Vigorous, broad brushstrokes capture a bright sky filled with billowing clouds here. Quick, abbreviated small brushwork convincingly renders details in the foreground, where he has also scraped back into the white paper to add radiant highlights.

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This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

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David Cox the Elder (English, 1783-1859)
The Hayfield, 1833
Watercolor and touches of graphite on wove paper
35.2 x 50.5 cm (13 7/8 x 19 7/8 inches)
Anonymous gift 71.153.24

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