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| Keywords: Hill, John William, Cucumbers, ca. 1860.jpg en John William Hill American 1812 “1879 Cucumbers ca 1860 Watercolor on cream wove paper 18 9 x 31 7 cm 7 7/16 x 12 1/2 in Museum purchase Laura P Hall Memorial Fund x1991-73 Around 1855 after reading Ruskin ™s influential Modern Painters John William Hill changed course and adopted a style closer to that of his son John Henry Hill a Pre-Raphaelite artist The elder Hill began to paint watercolors directly from nature employing a stipple technique of tiny dots of color in place of his previous method of broad washes cohered by an underlying drawing Compare Cucumbers with the artist ™s earlier Broadway Looking South from Liberty Street on view in the previous gallery The often down-to-earth subjects of Hill ™s later work accord well with the Ruskinian precept that the most compelling beauty is found in the most ordinary objects 1860 Princeton University Art Museum John William Hill other versions PD-Art Uploaded with UploadWizard American art in the Princeton University Art Museum 1860 American drawings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1860 Drawings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1860 Watercolor paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1860 Watercolor paintings by John William Hill Still-life drawings Cucumbers in art | ||||
