Hugh Bolton Jones
Fields and Woods in Spring
1893
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Framed: 30 3/8 x 42 3/8 x 5 in. (77.2 x 107.6 x 12.7 cm) Sight: 17 1/2 x 29 5/8 in. (44.5 x 75.2 cm)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dr. James R. Duke, Baltimore
Object Number
2012.563
Painting in a clear, crisp style, Hugh Bolton Jones captured the earliest touches of green in the trees near the Rahway River in Maplewood, New Jersey, where he was working
in 1894. Maplewood was formerly a part of the territories of the Lenape (also known as Lenni Lenape or Delaware) people, who inhabited areas of what are now Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. When Jones completed this painting, Maplewood was already being transformed from farmland and orchards into a commuter suburb of Newark, New Jersey, and New York, New York.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 2012; James R. Duke, Baltimore, by purchase; Alfred J. Walker, Boston
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century," February 7-May 8, 2016.
"Gifts of Art," BMA Today, Summer 2013, p. 13, ill.
On View at the BMA
