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Originally published in “Art in America,” March-April 1971, cover.

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Description: Originally published in “Art in America,” March-April 1971, cover.
TitleOriginally published in “Art in America,” March-April 1971, cover.
Creator nameUnknown
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1971
Object typePainting
MaterialsUnknown
DimensionsUnknown
LocationArt in America, March–April 1971
Accession numberUnknown
SubjectsNature in artTrees in artAmerican art
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Introduction: Seeing in Detail
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“Why do precisely these objects which we behold make a world?” Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854; repr., New York: Penguin, 1999), 179. Henry David Thoreau asks this question in Walden while observing the...
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PublisherYale University Press
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Chapter subject tags:Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862EmpiricismLandscape painting, AmericanDarwin, Charles, 1809-1882Manifest Destiny

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