# (Small Landscape)

- By: Thomas Hicks (born Newtown, PA 1823-died Trenton Falls, NY 1890)
- Date: 1862
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 10 1/8 x 18 1/8 in. (25.7 x 45.9 cm.)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase and gift of Dwight Wardlaw
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=10472)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/c23b425f4d2ea9a8c1f601677b80d254.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Thomas Hicks painted many images of the hills and rivers around his home in New York. Americans enjoyed scenic paintings of the landscape like this, which emphasized the peaceful relationship between man and nature. Industrialization in the nineteenth century took over many areas of countryside, and people bought images of the landscape to replace the view that had disappeared from their doorstep. The flat gray sky and the subdued browns and greens of this landscape evoke a hazy, midsummer afternoon in upstate New York.