Oil on canvas
Terra Foundation for the Arts,
Daniel J Terra Collection
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This picture conveys the stillness and silence of the backwoods, while reflecting on
the experience of the backwoodsmen whose livelihood depends on the felling of trees.
The conspicuous tree-stumps may refer to the tanning industry: tanning made use of the bark of the hemlock,
which contains tannin, and a large tannery was established in the neighbourhood of Hunter Mountain. |
Room 3: The Still Small Voice
Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880)