The "Masterworks of American Landscape Painting" is the second of a series of exhibitions that will focus on The Center of Figurative Paintings collection of Post-War American Painting. The Center for ...
Art, of course, is complicit in the development of American exceptionalism ... Artists like Thomas Cole and George Inness saw the landscape as vast, unspoiled, and aglow with divine providence.
In its imaginary form it's ubiquitous, even clichéd. You find it in nineteenth-century American landscape paintings, and in mountain scenes airbrushed on the sides of vans, and in the description ...