Article: Louis Remy Mignot. (landscape painter)

If any territory of nineteenth-century American art would seem thoroughly mapped it is the Hudson River school of landscape painting. The past thirty years have yielded a voluminous literature and an ever-rising tide of exhibitions devoted to the works and achievements of these artists. Yet the map remains incomplete. Among the surprising omissions is Louis Remy Mignot, once hailed as "one of the most remarkable artists of our country."(1) So profoundly has Mignot slipped into the shadows that most historians of American art concede no more than a footnote to a man whose work was highly esteemed by his peers, avidly collected by discerning patrons, and whose landscapes are ...

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