Lonesome Gap, North Carolina

Harrison Cady was a commercial artist and illustrator until the 1920s when he transitioned to oil painting. He became especially well-known through his illustrated adaptations of the popular “Peter Rabbit” character, earlier made famous by Beatrix Potter and Thornton Burgess. Even as Cady’s interests evolved from comics to landscape painting, his style retained the influences of cartoons and illustration, clear in his use of heavy black outlines and the sort of bold action marks we see around the rushing river of Lonesome Gap.