The natural world and political metaphor, Church's Cotopaxi Science, religion, and politics, Church’s Cotopaxi by Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris
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
The painting that inspired a National Park Thomas Moran, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone by Dr. Eleanor Jones Harvey and Dr. Beth Harris
Picturing Spanish conquest in an era of U.S. expansion Peter Frederick Rothermel, De Soto Raising the ... by Dr. Anna O. Marley and Dr. Steven Zucker
Daniel Boone, Moses, and the western frontier: creating an American mythology Envisioning Manifest Destiny by Carol Wilson and Dr. Steven Zucker
Cole, the great American landscape painter looks across the vast history of Western architecture Thomas Cole, The Architect’s Dream by Dr. Lawrence W. Nichols, Toledo Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker
Captured here in paint, this grand Californian landscape would soon disappear under water. Albert Bierstadt, Hetch Hetchy Valley, California by Erin Monroe, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Dr. Beth Harris
Cole feared for the American landscape as his country expanded westward. Thomas Cole, The Hunter’s Return by Maggie Adler, Amon Carter Museum of American Art and Dr. Beth Harris
“Luminism” sounds like a subject at Hogwarts, but it actually describes landscape paintings like this one. Fitz Henry Lane, Owl’s Head, Penobscot Bay, Maine by Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris
Adam and Eve have just been evicted from Paradise, and the grass was definitely greener on the other side. Thomas Cole, Expulsion from the Garden of Eden by Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris
Can we call a landscape painting “emo”? This brooding, melancholy canvas definitely tempts us to. Washington Allston, Elijah in the Desert by Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris
Church was the child star of nineteenth-century landscape painting; these astonishing canvases show us why. Frederic Edwin Church, Niagara and Heart of ... by Dr. Bryan Zygmont
This gigantic canvas is one of the most famous in the history of American art, but it wasn’t made in the USA. Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware by Dr. Bryan Zygmont
This dignified portrait of a Native leader belies the cruel treatment he endured at the time of its painting. George Catlin, The White Cloud, Head Chief ... by Farisa Khalid
Not content to merely paint the land, Cole elevated the landscape to approach the status of historical painting. Thomas Cole, The Oxbow by Dr. Bryan Zygmont