Charles Dickson Mountain Waterfall

Mountain waterfall was painted in the nineteenth century by Charles Dickerson. This painting represents a waterfall located in the Adirondack Mountains in New York. Dickerson used oil paint on top of a canvas to illustrate the picture. I chose this piece of artwork out of the Siena College J. Standish Library because of how realistic it looks. The painting illustrates a scene in nature and if I could see this image in real life, I would. I also liked how this waterfall came from the mountains in New York, where I was born. Overall the painting captures the beauty and simplicity of nature. The artist of Mountain waterfall was done by Charles Dickerson and was a gift from Pierre Bretey to the Siena College library. There is not much information on the painter or whether Dickerson has additional pieces of artwork. However, we do
The history of these mountains go back to ten thousand B.C. when the Algonquin speaking people hunted in this region. The French and Indian War and the American Revolution both took place in this region dealing with the capture of Fort Ticonderoga. The Adirondacks are made up of twelve different counties and are home to around 130,000 permanent residents and about 100,000 seasonal residents (“The Adirondacks”). Unfortunately, the information of what region the picture was taken from of the mountains is unknown. Also, the Adirondack park consists of six million acres of woodlands, mountains and waterways. There are approximately two thousand mountains in the Adirondacks, some reaching up to four thousand feet in height. The Adirondacks is home to many wildlife including bears, moose, deer and bald eagles. Many people swim, fish, canoe, camp, hike, ski and bike at the parks in the mountains (“The Adirondacks”). Dickerson was most likely touring the mountains when he took this picture to turn it into an oil