Augustus Pugin, Entrance Hall, Old Exhibition of the Royal Academy when at Somerset House (detail)
Upcoming Exhibition (view all)
Nature in America: Taming the Landscape
When: June 29 – August 26, 2012
About the show
From the late eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, the artistic representation of the American landscape provided a window into the thinking of painters and photographers and revealed their unique understanding of the natural world. Throughout the nineteenth century, painters and photographers documented the countryside of the Northeast and West and crafted works of art celebrating the beauties and dramas of the American wilderness. Artists later radically changed American visions of landscape with modes inspired by modern European movements, including impressionism, symbolism, and cubism. The exhibition brings together paintings, drawings, photographs, and prints from the permanent collection and selected loans including works by Thomas Cole, George Inness, Carleton Watkins, John Twachtman, and Edward Steichen. The exhibition is supported by the Evelyn Metzger Exhibition Fund.
![[Feature image for the exhibit]](../../assets/images/exhibits/2011-2012/nature-in-america.jpg "The Upper Palisades")
The Upper Palisades, 1860
Charles Herbert Moore (American, 1840-1930)
Oil on canvas
Gift of Matthew Vassar
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