American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820-1880
- ISBN-10
- 0691096708
- ISBN-13
- 9780691096704
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 284
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Authors
- T. J. Barringer, Andrew Wilton
Description
Published to accompany a major transatlantic exhibition, a tribute to U.S. landscape painting features more than one hundred works by the Hudson River School artists, complemented by three gatefolds, artist biographies, and essays on American landscape painting in the context of international traditions and national identity. (Fine Arts)
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