Mostly from the Terra Foundation for American Art in Chicago and the University of Melbourne's Grimwade Collection including many from the Hudson River school whose combination of pastoral and romanticist mood in rendering American landscapes unsurprisingly attracts me; also prominent are examples of 'luminism' which I gather emerged as a kind of later development particularly focused on light and atmosphere.
The exhibition also manages some nice side by side comparisons of Australian and American landscapes with very similar compositions and styles, including one of a bend in the river flowing through Studley Park. But it was generally the American scenes that most spoke to me.
The exhibition also manages some nice side by side comparisons of Australian and American landscapes with very similar compositions and styles, including one of a bend in the river flowing through Studley Park. But it was generally the American scenes that most spoke to me.
John Glover - "Patterdale Farm" (c. 1840)
John La Farge - "Paradise Valley" (c. 1866-1868)
Martin Johnson Heade - "Newburyport Marshes: approaching storm" (c. 1871)
Sanford Robinson Gifford - "Hunter Mountain, twilight" (1866)
