An Endless Panorama of Beauty
Selections from the Jean and Alvin Snowiss Collection of American Art
Joyce Henri Robinson
An Endless Panorama of Beauty
Selections from the Jean and Alvin Snowiss Collection of American Art
Joyce Henri Robinson
“Turning the pages of this handsome book is to view many horizons of place and time in America: chasm landscapes of Robert Street and of David Johnson; Peale and Copley portraits of colonial ladies and gentlemen; seascapes of Bricher and of Homer defining our eastern shores; the new light and forms Bierstadt and O’Keeffe found in the American West; and modernist Dove and impressionist Hassam depicting human alteration of the land in between.”
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The contributors to the catalogue—Joyce Henri Robinson, Leo G. Mazow, and Julia Dolan—also set the art into the context of American social and cultural history. Mazow's introductory essay concerns the expanded horizons and deeply recessed spaces frequently found in nineteenth- and twentieth-century landscape paintings, exploring the ways in which these represent a "panoramic sensibility" at the core of American cultural history.
“Turning the pages of this handsome book is to view many horizons of place and time in America: chasm landscapes of Robert Street and of David Johnson; Peale and Copley portraits of colonial ladies and gentlemen; seascapes of Bricher and of Homer defining our eastern shores; the new light and forms Bierstadt and O’Keeffe found in the American West; and modernist Dove and impressionist Hassam depicting human alteration of the land in between.”
Joyce Henri Robinson is curator at the Palmer Museum of Art and Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Art History of The Pennsylvania State University.
Leo G. Mazow is curator of American art at the Palmer Museum of Art.
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