Romanticism in the United States took up themes of nature and spirituality in uniquely American ways.
c. 1800–1865 C.E.
Romanticism in the United States took up themes of nature and spirituality in uniquely American ways.
c. 1800–1865 C.E.
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Bodmer's depictions of North America profoundly impacted the way in which we understand the American landscape.
Cole’s extraordinary series chronicles each stage of human life: childhood, youth, manhood, and old age.
Inness captures a tension between industrial progress and its effect on the American landscape.
Created as the Civil War was coming to an end but at a time when all Americans were not yet equal citizens, this painting invokes an idealized landscape, with references to both past and present.
The natural world and political metaphor, Church's Cotopaxi
Picturing Spanish conquest in an era of U.S. expansion
Daniel Boone, Moses, and the western frontier: creating an American mythology
Cole, the great American landscape painter looks across the vast history of Western architecture
Captured here in paint, this grand Californian landscape would soon disappear under water.
Cole feared for the American landscape as his country expanded westward.