High Bridge, New York
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
40 1/4 x 50 1/8 in. (102.2 x 127.3 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of William T. Evans, 1907
Accession Number
07.111
Tags
New York CityRiversLandscapesBridges
About the Artist
Henry Ward Ranger · 1858–1916
Henry Ward Ranger was born in 1858 in Syracuse, New York, and grew up to become one of the leading American landscape painters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He received his early training in the United States before traveling extensively in Europe, where he spent significant time studying in Holland and England. The Dutch Barbizon painters — particularly the Hague School ar...