Detail of The Oxbow, After Church, After Cole, Flooded by Hannock in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2011

The Oxbow: After Church, After Cole, Flooded (Flooded River for the Matriarchs E. & A. Mongan), Green Light

Stephen Hannock (American, born Albany, New York 1951)

Date: 2000

Medium: Acrylic, alkyd and oil glazes with collage elements on canvas Dimensions: 96 x 144 in. (243.8 x 365.8 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Purchase, Moore Capital Management Inc. Gift, 2001

Accession Number: 2001.153

Description:

Hannock's mural-size painting is a contemporary interpretation of the Connecticut River scene made famous by Thomas Cole's View from Mount Holyoke Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm-The Oxbow (1836; The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Hannock emphasizes the vista's grandeur while at the same time personalizing it with an overlay of script referring to people, places, and events from his life. In addition to Cole, the painting's title pays homage to the nineteenth-century artist Frederick Church and to two of Hannock's early mentors, Elizabeth and Agnes Mongan, who were connected to the museums at Harvard and Smith College.-

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