Landscape with Haywain

Landscape with Haywain — Worthington Whittredge. 1861.

Medium: oil on canvas. Dimensions: Framed: 65.5 x 103 x 12.5 cm (25 13/16 x 40 9/16 x 4 15/16 in.); Unframed: 40.2 x 78 cm (15 13/16 x 30 11/16 in.).

Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Painted during the first year of the Civil War, this idyllic view of a farm near Dobb's Ferry, New York, proclaimed to Northern viewers the success of an agricultural system in which farmers worked their own land. The American flag hanging beside the homestead subtly alludes to the war. Such a scene was thus a critique of Southern slavery. Yet the beauty of the landscape, the wagon carrying a bountiful harvest of hay and the long afternoon shadows, also offers an optimistic image of harmony between man and nature.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.