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Accession #	24.110
Artist	Charles Courtney Curran
Title	On the Heights
Date	1909
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	30 1/16 x 30 1/16 in. (76.4 x 76.4 cm) Frame: 44 3/8 x 44 3/8 x 1 1/4 in. (112.7 x 112.7 x 3.2 cm)
Signed	Signed lower left on rock: "Chas. C. Curran/1909" Signed lower right: "Chas. C. Curran./1909"
Credit Line	Gift of George D. Pratt
Location	American Identities: Modern Life

Curatorial Remarks: Many of the paintings, such as this one, that Charles Courtney Curran completed during his summers at the Cragsmoor art colony near Ellenville, New York, reflect the genteel, idyllic nature of the community, and show figures set within the picturesque landscape of the area. Here, three idealized young women are silhouetted against a sunlit sky as they perch on a boulder. Curran’s treatment of bright summer skies, which often took up the greatest portion of his compositions, became a hallmark of his paintings from Cragsmoor.