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Artists Sketching at Chocorua Pond, New Hampshire
Daniel Huntington (1816–1906)
September 28, 1854
Graphite on paper (10 3/16 x 14 1/8 in.)
Courtesy of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, bequest of Erskine Hewitt
1942-50-161
During an 1854 expedition in New Hampshire, the New York artist Daniel Huntington sketched four of his colleagues (Thomas Edwards, John Wood Dodge, Alfred Ordway, and Benjamin Champney) as they sat near Chocorua Lake, perched on the stone wall or sitting on the grass. Each of them was creating his own view of Chocorua Mountain. Huntington’s sketch was an acknowledgment of the growing presence of the artist in the landscape, as well as a nod to the camaraderie of the artistic community in the White Mountains. None of the artists appear in Huntington’s finished painting, Chocorua Peak, New Hampshire.
