George Herbert McCord Winter Twilight Scene with Figures

George Herbert McCord (1848-1909)

A member of the second generation of Hudson River School painters, George Herbert McCord is known for his atmospheric landscape and marine paintings executed in a variety of media, including oil, pastel, and watercolor, and which capture a variety of locales.
McCord was born in 1848 in New York City, where he lived and worked his entire life. After 1883, he kept an additional studio in Morristown, NJ. McCord traveled throughout North America, painting in the Berkshire, Adirondack and Laurentian mountain ranges, the Hudson River Valley, the coast of New England, the Upper Mississippi, and Florida, which had become popular among Eastern vacationers. He was among a select group of artists commissioned by the Santa Fe Railroad to paint the Grand Canyon, and also participated in a special painting excursion to the Erie Canal. His travels in Europe were equally expansive, taking him to England, Scotland (having been commissioned by Andrew Carnegie to paint the scenery around been commissioned by Andrew Carnegie to paint the scenery around his castle there), France, the Netherlands, and Italy.