Postcard of George Quincy Thorndike's painting of Hanging Rock.
Thorndike was an American painter drawn to the rugged beauty of Aquidneck Island's coastline and countryside. He chose to immortalize that beauty in art, creating the pastoral landscape, Hanging Rock. The Hanging Rock that Thorndike painted is located at the present-day site of the Norman Bird Sanctuary in Middletown, Rhode Island.
The painting itself is housed in the Museum of Newport History.
Thorndike was an American painter drawn to the rugged beauty of Aquidneck Island's coastline and countryside. He chose to immortalize that beauty in art, creating the pastoral landscape, Hanging Rock. The Hanging Rock that Thorndike painted is located at the present-day site of the Norman Bird Sanctuary in Middletown, Rhode Island.
The painting itself is housed in the Museum of Newport History.
