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Jacob van Ruisdael, 'Edge of a Forest with a Grainfield,' c. 1656, oil on canvas, 41 x 57 1/2 in. (103.8 x 146.2 cm), Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. (PRNewsFoto/Kimbell Art Museum).

Kimbell Art Museum acquires Dutch landscape masterpiece

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf

Jacob van Ruisdael, 'Edge of a Forest with a Grainfield,' c. 1656, oil on canvas, 41 x 57 1/2 in. (103.8 x 146.2 cm), Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. (PRNewsFoto/Kimbell Art Museum).
Jacob van Ruisdael, ‘Edge of a Forest with a Grainfield,’ c. 1656, oil on canvas, 41 x 57 1/2 in. (103.8 x 146.2 cm), Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. (PRNewsFoto/Kimbell Art Museum).
DALLAS (AP) – The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth has acquired a 17th century work by a Dutch artist considered one of the greatest landscape painters.

The museum over the weekend announced the purchase of Jacob van Ruisdael’s Edge of a Forest with a Grainfield from Oxford University’s Worcester College, which has had the painting since it was donated by an alumnus in 1811.

The painting, measuring about 3 feet by 5 feet, depicts billowing clouds above a scene featuring a stream with a forest on one side and a field on the other.

Ruisdael expert Seymour Slive says that the painting is “a world-class masterpiece,” noting it’s unusually large, signed and “almost miraculously well-preserved.”

It will go on display at the Kimbell in April.

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Jacob van Ruisdael, 'Edge of a Forest with a Grainfield,' c. 1656, oil on canvas, 41 x 57 1/2 in. (103.8 x 146.2 cm), Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. (PRNewsFoto/Kimbell Art Museum).
Jacob van Ruisdael, ‘Edge of a Forest with a Grainfield,’ c. 1656, oil on canvas, 41 x 57 1/2 in. (103.8 x 146.2 cm), Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. (PRNewsFoto/Kimbell Art Museum).