Whittredge, Thomas Worthington

Whittredge, Thomas Worthington

(hwĭt`rĭj), 1820–1910, American painter, b. Springfield, Ohio. He studied in Paris, Düsseldorf, and Rome before returning to the United States. He is numbered among the practitioners of luminismluminism
, American art movement of the 19th cent. Luminism was an outgrowth of the Hudson River school. In its concern for capturing the effects of light and atmosphere it is sometimes linked to impressionism. Its practitioners included Frederick E.
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. His paintings contain a minutely executed tonal quality marked by intense illumination, expressing a mysterious, atmospheric silence. Notable works include the Camp Meeting (1874; Metropolitan Mus.) and Third Beach, Newport (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis).

Whittredge, Thomas Worthington

(1820–1910) painter; born in Springfield, Ohio. A sign painter in Cincinnati (1838–39), he became a landscape artist (1843), studied in Europe (1849–59), returned to New York (1859), and settled in the Catskill Mountains. Known as a Hudson River School painter, as seen in Trout Pool in the Catskills (1875), he moved to Summit, N.J., in 1880.