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Aaron Sachs
Description: Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition
Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition
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Aaron Sachs
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2013 by Aaron Sachs
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1. W. H. Bartlett, Cemetery of Mount Auburn, 1839, hand-colored engraving. Author’s collection.
2. Nicolas Poussin, The Shepherds of Arcadia (Et in Arcadia Ego), 1640, oil on canvas, 85 × 121 cm. Photograph by René-Gabriel Ojéda, used by permission of Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY.
3. J. M. Wilgus, Map of the City of Ithaca, N.Y., Engraved Expressly for Norton and Hanford’s Ithaca City Directory, 1896. Courtesy of Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY.
4. Alexander Wadsworth, Plan of Mount Auburn, 1831. Courtesy of Mount Auburn Cemetery Historical Collections, Cambridge and Watertown, MA.
5. Yellow Belle-Fleur, lithograph. Illustration from A. J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1845; New York: John Wiley, 1850), facing page 100. Courtesy of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY.
6. The Kanadesaga monument, Geneva, NY, 2010. Photograph by the author.
7. Charles Sullivan, Great Mound at Marietta, Ohio, lithograph. Illustration from E. G. Squier and E. H. Davis, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1848), Plate 45, facing page 138. Courtesy of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY.
8. Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: Desolation, 1836, oil on canvas, 39¼ × 63¼ in.; Accession #1858.5. Collection of the New-York Historical Society.
9. John Bachmann, Bird’s Eye View of Greenwood Cemetery, near New York, 1852, lithograph. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA.
10. Mount Repose Cemetery, Haverstraw, NY, 2010. Photograph by the author.
11. B. G. Stone, View of Samsonville Tannery, Olive Township, Ulster County, New York, c. 1855, lithograph. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA.
12. W. Endicott, Prattsville, Greene Co., N.Y., 1850, lithograph. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA.
13. E. Baumann, North Western Part of Llewellyn Park, 1853, lithograph. Illustration from A. J. Downing, A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America, 8th ed. (New York: O. Judd, 1859), Figure 106, following page 570. Courtesy of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY.
14. W. H. Bartlett, View of Hudson City, and the Catskill Mountains, 1840, engraving. Illustration from N. P. Willis, American Scenery; or, Land, Lake, and River: Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature, vol. 2 (London: George Virtue, 1840), Plate 35, page 67. Courtesy of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY.
15. Dearborn’s Seedling, lithograph. Illustration from A. J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1845; New York: John Wiley, 1850), facing page 336. Courtesy of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY.
16. B. F. Smith, Washington, D.C., with Projected Improvements, 1852 lithograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC.
17. Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State, 1836, oil on canvas, 39¼ × 63¼ in.; Accession #1858.2. Collection of the New-York Historical Society.
18. Thomas Cole, Dream of Arcadia, c. 1838, oil on canvas. Denver Art Museum Collection: Gift of Mrs. Lindsey Gentry, 1954.71. Photograph provided by the Denver Art Museum.
19. Thomas Cole, Evening in Arcady, 1843, oil on canvas, 32 5/8 × 48 5/16 in. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, bequest of Clara Hinton Gould, 1948.190. Photograph used by permission of Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art/Art Resource, NY.
20. Thomas Cole, A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch), 1839, oil on canvas, 102 × 155.8 cm. Andrew W. Mellon Fund, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1967.8.1. Image courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
21. Thomas Cole, Daniel Boone at His Cabin at Great Osage Lake, c. 1826, oil on canvas, 38¼ × 42 5/8 in. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, Museum Purchase, AC P.1939.7.
22. Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Manhood, 1840, oil on canvas, 52 × 78 in. Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY, Museum Purchase, 55.107. Photograph used by permission of Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute/Art Resource, NY.
23. Thomas Cole, The Cross in the Wilderness, after a poem by Felicia Hemans, 1845, oil on canvas, 61 × 61 cm. Louvre, Paris. Photograph by Jean-Gilles Berizzi, used by permission of Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY.
24. Thomas Cole’s grave, Catskill, NY, 2010. Photograph by the author.
25. Asher Brown Durand, Kindred Spirits, 1849, oil on canvas, 44 × 36 in. Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR. Photograph by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
26. Frederic Edwin Church, To the Memory of Cole, 1848, oil on canvas, 32 × 49 in. Private collection. Image courtesy of A. J. Kollar Fine Paintings, LLC, Seattle, WA.
27. John Quidor, The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane, 1858, oil on canvas, 26 7/8 × 33 7/8 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. Museum purchase made possible in part by the Catherine Walden Myer Endowment, the Julia D. Strong Endowment, and the Director’s Discretionary Fund. Photograph used by permission of Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC/Art Resource, NY.
28. Civil War amputee Lieutenant Burritt Stiles, Co. A, 14th Connecticut Volunteers, 1867, photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division, Washington, DC.
29. “Ft. Sanders, Knoxville, Tenn.,” 1863, stereoscopic photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC.
30. George Inness, The Lackawanna Valley, c. 1856, oil on canvas, 86 × 127.5 cm. Gift of Mrs. Huttleston Rogers, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC., 1945.4.1. Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
31. Sanford Robinson Gifford, Hunter Mountain, Twilight, 1866, oil on canvas, 30 5/8 × 54⅛ in. Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.57. Photograph used by permission of Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago/Art Resource, NY.
32. Timothy H. O’Sullivan, A Harvest of Death, 1863, photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC.
33. Alfred Waud, “Wounded Escaping from the Burning Woods of the Wilderness,” 1864, pencil and “Chinese white” on brown paper. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC.
34. Winslow Homer, Skirmish in the Wilderness, 1864, oil on canvas mounted on masonite, 18 × 26¼ in. New Britain Museum of American Art, Harriet Russell Stanley Fund, 1944.05.
35. Winslow Homer, The Initials, 1864, oil on canvas, 21×17 in. Courtesy of a private collection.
36. Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Quarters of Men in Fort Sedgwick, 1865, photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC.
37. Winslow Homer, Trooper Meditating beside a Grave, c. 1865, oil on canvas. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, gift of Dr. Harold Gifford and Ann Gifford Forbes, 1960.298.
38. Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field, 1865, oil on canvas, 24⅛×38⅛ in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967 (67.187.131). Photograph used by permission of The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, NY.
39. Pileated woodpecker, near Finland, MN, 1989. Photograph by the author.
40. Albert Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak, 1863, oil on canvas, 73½ × 120¾ in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Rogers Fund, 1907 (07.123). Photograph used by permission of The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, NY.
41. Albert Bierstadt, Valley of the Yosemite, 1864, oil on paperboard, 30.16 × 48.89 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, gift of Martha C. Karolik and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865, 47.1236. Photograph used by permission of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
42. Dayton National Cemetery, 2011. Photograph by the author.
43. Civil War amputee Lieutenant Burritt Stiles, Co. A, 14th Connecticut Volunteers, 1867, photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division, Washington, DC.
44. Louis Kurz, National Soldiers’ Home near Milwaukee, Wis., North-Western Branch, between 1872 and 1878, lithograph. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA.
45. Grave of Benjamin Tevya Sachs. Photograph by the author.
46. Farview Park, Minneapolis, 2010. Photograph by the author.
47. Indian Mounds Park, St. Paul, MN, c. 1900, photograph. Minnesota Historical Society.
48. Gold Medal Park, Minneapolis, MN, 2010. Photograph by the author.
49. Grave of H. W. S. Cleveland, Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, MN, 2010. Photograph by the author.
50. Thomas Cole, Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge, 1829, oil on canvas, 35¾ × 47 5/8 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. Photograph used by permission of Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC/Art Resource, NY.
51. Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow, 1836, oil on canvas, 51½ × 76 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1908 (08.228). Photograph used by permission of The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, NY.
52. Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930, oil on beaver board, 78 × 65.3 cm. The Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of American Art Collection, 1930.934.
53. A playground in a cemetery, Newburgh, NY, 2010. Photograph by the author.
54. Bartlett, lithograph. Illustration from A. J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1845; New York: John Wiley, 1850), facing page 334. Courtesy of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY.
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