George H. McCord

Fishing in the Mountains
c. 1870
Oil on Canvas
20 x 30

George Herbert McCord (1848-1909)

A highly accomplished American painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries,
George H. McCord was well-known for atmospheric landscapes created in a variety of
media. Born in New York City, he spent most of his life based in Brooklyn and
Morristown. Part of the second generation of Hudson River School painters, he studied
at the Hudson River Institute, the Claverack Academy in Claverack, New York and with
Samuel F.B. Morse and James Fairman. By 1870, he was exhibiting at the National
Academy of Design, of which he became an Associate Member in 1880. McCord
traveled widely through the U.S. and also in Europe throughout his life. He made
frequent sketching trips in New England, Canada, the South and the Upper Mississippi
as well as to the western states. He participated in one of the exclusive excursions
sponsored by the Santa Fe Railroad to paint the Grand Canyon. He was also part of a
special Erie Canal painting trip, and was commissioned by Andrew Carnegie to paint
the scenery around his castle in Cluny, Scotland. He lived for three years in Venice and
later in Paris. He died in NYC in 1909. Considered one of the finest artists of his era and
genre, McCord’s work is represented today in the collections more than thirty American
art museums.

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