Storm+King+on+the+Hudson

Date: 1866
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1929/1929.6.20_4a.jpg?itok=nMuCs3Qr width="396" height="216" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/storm-king-hudson-5183"]] || Title: **Storm King on the Hudson**

Artist: **Samuel Colman** Born: Portland, Maine 1832 Died: New York, New York 1920

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 32 1/8 x 59 7/8 in. (81.6 x 152.0 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of John Gellatly

Accession: 1929.6.20 || Storm King Mountain, near West Point on the Hudson River, is named for the storm clouds that gather at its peak. Here the plumes of gray-black smoke from the steamboats counter the bank of clouds. Colman uses the smoke and clouds to weave a visual tapestry between the natural and the man-made. Further underscoring the union of man and nature, Colman contrasts three types of river vessels: steam-powered, sailboats, and rowboats.
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