Landscape, Brittany
Medium
Graphic Arts-Print
Classification
Graphic Arts-Print
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Moune G.H. Webster
Accession Number
1974.85.37
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Landscape, Brittany** (1907) by Donald MacLaughlan is a graphic arts print housed in the Smithsonian American Art's collection, generously gifted by Moune G. Webster. Created in the early 20th, this work captures the timeless charm of Brittany, a rugged coastal region in northwestern France celebrated for its Celtic heritage, stone-built villages, and pastoral scenes. MacLaughlan, an American artist with a penchant for European landscapes, invites viewers into a serene rural idyll through this intimate print medium. The composition features grazing cattle, traditional Breton architecture, a...
About the Artist
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan (1876–1938) was born on November 9 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, though he is recognized as an American artist after his family relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1890. There, as a teenager, he immersed himself in the Boston Public Library's collections of old master prints, studying works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, and eighteenth-century E...