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Description: The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825–1875
~JOHN F. KENSETT (1816–1872), affable and urbane, fond of good company, soft beds, and fine cigars, was well suited to be a painter of the touristic landscape.The scholarly literature on Kensett is surprisingly scant. Among the important publications are...
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.85-107
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00117.008
Description: Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America
The African-American artist Robert S. Duncanson painted landscapes in the style of the Hudson River School. Whether representing the Catskills, the Andes, or the Ohio River Valley, the so-called Hudson River School artists depicted locations in which forests, lakes, mountains, and streams stretched off into infinity and in which humans, if present at all, were mere bystanders at nature’s...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.107-157
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00093.006

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