Cohoes Falls on Mohawk River, New York
Medium
Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
11 3/4 x 17 1/2 in. (29.8 x 44.5 cm)
Classification
Watercolor
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1974
Accession Number
1974.199
Tags
Art Historical Context
John Rubens Smith's *Cohoes Falls on Mohawk River, New York captures the raw power and natural beauty of one of America's most dramatic waterfalls. Rendered in watercolor and graphite on off wove paper (11 3/4 x 17 1/2 in.), this American landscape depicts the cascading falls along the Mohawk, framed by lush plants and the river's flowing expanse. As a work from The American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acquired through the Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund in 1974, it exemplifies early 19th-century topographic art that documented the nation's burgeoning wilderness. Smith, an English-born ar...
About the Artist
John Rubens Smith · 1775–1849
Comment on works: marine; portrait; engraver