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On July 2nd, the group arrived in Denver, where they stayed for several days[1]. Whittredge said of the town, “Denver had the appearance of a spruced up mining camp. It had not lost the look of its ‘Pikes Peak’ mining days... the inhabitants were growing bold and predicting great things for their town.”[2] The group camped about one mile from the American House, “the best hotel in the place.”[3]

It is likely that Whittredge made drawings of the Platte River during his time in Denver, which were used later in a series of paintings that gave monumental treatment to his western sketches. Paintings like “Encampment on the Platte River” at the American Museum of Western Art—The Anschutz Collection (AMWA), captivated the artist and capture the vastness of the Great Plains:

I had never seen the plains or anything like them. They impressed me deeply. I cared more for them than for the mountains, and very few of my western pictures have been produced from sketches made in the mountains, but rather from those made on the plains with the mountains in the distance. Whoever crossed the plains at that period, not withstanding its herds of buffalo and flocks of antelope, its wild horses, deer and fleet rabbits, could hardly fai

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Worthington Whittredge

American painter

Worthington Whittredge
Portrait c.1890
Born	Thomas Worthington Whittredge (1820-05-22)May 22, 1820 Springfield, Ohio, US
Died	February 25, 1910(1910-02-25) (aged 89) Summit, Original Jersey, US
Education	Hudson River Grammar, Düsseldorf Academy
Notable work	The Trout Pool (1870)
Style	Landscape
Spouse	Euphemia Foot-Whittredge
Website	thomasworthingtonwhittredge.org

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Childhood

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Worthington Whittredge papers, circa 1840s-1965, bulk 1849-1908

Thomas Worthington Whittredge (1820-1910) was born in 1820 in Springfield, Ohio. Receiving very little formal education, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio at the age of 17 to serve as an apprentice house and sign painter. A few years later, in his early twenties, he briefly ran a daguerreotype studio in Indianapolis, Indiana, and worked as a portrait painter in Charleston, West Virginia.

In 1843 Whittredge decided to pursue landscape painting, and was greatly influenced by Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole. In 1849 he traveled to Düsseldorf, Germany, to further his training at the Düsseldorf Academy. There, he met painter Emanuel Leutze and modeled for Leutze's painting Washington Crossing the Delaware (1850). He lived for a year in the home of landscape painter Andreas Achenbach and became friends with Carl Friedrich Lessing. Whittredge spent the summer of 1856 sketching in Switzerland with Albert Bierstadt. That fall Whittredge and Bierstadt moved to Rome where they were joined by fellow artists Sanford Robinson Gifford and William Stanley Haseltine.

Whittredge stayed in Italy until 1859 when he returned to America and settled in New York City, renting a space at Richard Morris Hunt's famous Tenth Str