Bushkill Falls
Description:
Oil on canvas, 164×126 cm. Unsigned on visible surface. INV G 0956
Location:
Von Der Heydt-Museum, Turmhof 8, 42103 Wuppertal, Germany
Provenance:
American private collection; acquired by Erich Hahne, Wuppertal-Langerfeld and donated to the museum by Erich Hahne in 1958
Bibliography:
Uta Laxner-Gerlach, Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal. Katalog der Gemalde des 19. Jahrhunderts, Wuppertal, 1974, pp152-153 (illustrated).
Catalogued mistakenly by the museum as the ‘Burkell-Wasserfaelle’ This was a very large canvas, apparently reduced in width by the canvas turned over the stretcher 9cm on the right and 17cm on the left, and must have been painted in emulation of the enormous canvases of men like Thomas Cole (1801-1848), Asher B. Durand (1796-1886) and Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900). The museum catalogues it, according to what appears to be in the photograph a signature lower right, as by Adolf Müller, rather than A. Muller-Ury which would be correct for the date it was painted, between 1885 and 1887.
