Article: Beyond Romanticism in Art

Beyond Romanticism in Art

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Epic Landscapes. American painting at midcentury was dominated by the Hudson River School: Thomas Cole (1801-1848), Asher Durand (1796-1886), Frederic Church (1826-1900), and other artists whose epic landscapes reflected a young nation s sense of manifest destiny. The poet William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) gloried in the scenes ol wild grandeur that Cole painted. The mountaintops with their mighty growth of forest never touched by the axe, banks of streams never deformed by culture, and depths of skies bright with the hues of our own climate were signs of paradise on earth. Over ...

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