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Dr. Peter John Brownlee, Curator, Terra Foundation for American Art

About Dr. Peter John Brownlee, Curator, Terra Foundation for American Art

Peter John Brownlee is curator at the Terra Foundation for American Art.

A Hudson River School artist looks north

Revisiting a frozen sea

by Dr. Peter John Brownlee, Curator, Terra Foundation for American Art and Dr. Beth Harris

Frederic Edwin Church, The Iceberg, c. 1875, oil on canvas, 55.9 x 68.6 cm (Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1993.6) — Revisiting a frozen sea, memory and science in the 19th century

Frederic Edwin Church, The Iceberg

by Dr. Peter John Brownlee, Curator, Terra Foundation for American Art and Dr. Beth Harris

George Tooker, Highway, 1953, egg tempera on gesso hardboard, 58.1 x 45.4 cm (Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.134 © Estate of George Tooker) — There is no open road here.

Cars, highways, and isolation in Postwar America

by Dr. Peter John Brownlee, Curator, Terra Foundation for American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

There is no open road

Tooker, Highway

by Dr. Peter John Brownlee, Curator, Terra Foundation for American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

Samuel Colman, Jr., Ships Unloading, New York, 1868, oil on canvas mounted on board, 105 x 76 cm (The Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1984.4) — Sail, steam, cotton, and oil — the engines of the American economy.

Cotton, oil, and the economics of history

by Dr. Peter John Brownlee, Curator, Terra Foundation for American Art and Dr. Beth Harris

Samuel Colman, Jr., Ships Unloading, New York, 1868, oil on canvas mounted on board, 105 x 76 cm (The Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1984.4) — Cotton, oil, and the economics of history

Samuel Colman, Jr., Ships Unloading, New York

by Dr. Peter John Brownlee, Curator, Terra Foundation for American Art and Steven Zucker