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Sunday Afternoon

Rudolph Ingerle

1879-1950

Sunday Afternoon

Oil on canvas

48 1/8 in x 52 1/8 in

1929

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Known as the “Painter of the Smokies,” Rudolph Ingerle believed his scenic landscapes advanced the effort to establish the Smoky Mountains as a national park. Sunday Afternoon may be a tribute to his literary counterpart, Horace Kephart, whose volume Our Southern Highlanders documented his experiences living in the mountains of western North Carolina. The tall central figure with a walking stick and high boots wears a broad-brimmed hat not unlike the one that the writer usually donned.

Almost square, the canvas with its intense colors, tactile surface, and closed-off perspective is reminiscent of the work of such French Post-Impressionists as Paul Gauguin and Paul Cézanne.

As Published In:

Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from the Johnson Collection, 2015

As Exhibited In:

Yellow, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, August 5–October 17, 2026

Painting the Smokies Art, Community and the Making of a National Park, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN, March 15, 2022–January 31, 2023

Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from the Johnson Collection, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN, November 1, 2015–January 3, 2016, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA, January 16–April 10, 2016, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN, January 16–April 10, 2016, McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC, May 19–August 5, 2017, Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA, October 13, 2017–March 25, 2018, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC, August 28–December 13, 2018

The Elemental South: Visions of the Southern Landscape, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, December 4, 2014–February 26, 2015

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