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Adirondacks: Bridge for Fishing is among the many landscape paintings Eilshemius made of American locations he visited on numerous sketching trips in the 1880s and 1890s.
Although Eilshemius's landscapes fit within the tradition of late nineteenth-century American painting, they still betray an eccentric vision that anticipates modern expression. A sunny, nostalgic view of pastoral America, Adirondacks: Bridge for Fishing resembles a contemporaneous landscape by Arthur B. Davies, Along the Erie Canal, 1890, the tiny figures in a bright, "picture-perfect" world giving it a quaintly old-fashioned quality, or what Duncan Phillips described as "rural romanticism." Yet, its limited, yellow-saturated palette washes out details and compresses the space, creating the effect of a simple child's image and emphasizing the two-dimensional design elements.
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