Room 236
American Landscape Painting
1834–1891, USA (Pennsylvania, Maine, New York, the West), Hudson River School and Luminism
Nineteenth-century American painters looked for the sublime in their country’s nature. Fitz Henry Lane painted calm, light-filled harbours in Maine, George Inness soft, atmospheric fields and woods. Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran travelled west with expeditions; Moran’s pictures of Yellowstone helped bring about the world’s first national park there in 1872. The Quaker Edward Hicks painted his “Peaceable Kingdom” again and again.
All works
- Buffalo Trail: The Impending Storm
- Harvest Scene in the Delaware Valley
- The Much Resounding Sea
- Lumber Schooners at Evening on Penobscot Bay
- The Cornell Farm
- Hillside at Étretat
- The Juniata, Evening
- New York Harbor
- Peaceable Kingdom
- Mount Corcoran
- Harvest Moon
- Green River Cliffs, Wyoming
- Penn’s Treaty with the Indians
- Lake Lucerne
- Sunset in the Woods
- St. Paul's from Under Waterloo Bridge, Low Tide
- Becalmed off Halfway Rock
- The Grave of William Penn
- View of the Tiber near Perugia
- Hot Springs of Gardiner's River, Yellowstone
- Brace's Rock, Eastern Point, Gloucester
- Lake Albano, Sunset
- Tower at Tower Falls, Yellowstone
- Entrance of Somes Sound, Mount Desert, Maine
- The Lackawanna Valley
- Mountain of the Holy Cross
- Castine from Wasson's Hill, Brooksville, Maine
- Landscape
- Minerva Terrace, Yellowstone
- View of Gloucester, Massachusetts
- Cliffs of Ecclesbourne Near Hastings
- Buildings by Moonlight
- View of Venice
- In the Newark Meadows