Summer Flowers
Artist: Jerome B. Thompson (American, 1814–1886)
Original Dimensions: 36" x 23 1/2"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1859) "To offset the trials of city living, wealthy nineteenth-century New Yorkers often escaped to rural estates, where--according to the architectural theorist Andrew Jackson Downing--the “humble roof, . . . shady porch, . . . verdant lawn, and smiling flowers offered a “barrier against vice, immorality, and bad habits.” Thompson’s cheerful view of a Gothic Revival-style Hudson River Valley home, seen at a distance behind an elegant family seated in a blossoming field, embodies Downing’s bucolic ideal." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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