The Trapper's Cabin
1858
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 91.4 × 73.5 cm (36 × 28 15/16 in.) framed: 127 × 96.2 × 16.5 cm (50 × 37 7/8 × 6 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)
Accession Number
2014.79.44
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the National Gallery of Art, where John Mix Stanley's *The Trapper's Cabin* (1858) invites visitors into the rugged world of America's frontier. This oil on canvas painting, measuring 36 × 28 15/16 inches, captures the solitary life of a trapper amid the vast wilderness, evoking the era's spirit of exploration and self-reliance. Stanley, a 19th-century artist known for documenting the American West, created works that bridged Romanticism and emerging realism, often drawing from his own travels across the expanding frontier. Painted during the waning years of the fur trade and the h...