UPCOMING EXHIBITION
Iconic American Masterpieces in Columbia
November 19, 2011 - April 1, 2012
Thomas Cole, Catskill Creek, N.Y., 1845. Oil on canvas, 26 1/2 x 36 in.
(67.3 x 91.4 cm) The Robert L. Stuart Collection, S-157
By Brian J. Lang, Curator of Decorative Arts
Forty-five magnificent paintings from the
rich collection of the New-York Historical
Society will be on view at the Museum
beginning November 19, 2011, in a major
traveling exhibition Nature and the Grand
American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson
River School Painters. Though individual
works are very seldom loaned, these iconic
works of 19th-century landscape painting
are traveling on a national tour for the first
time and the Columbia Museum of Art is
the only stop in the Southeast.
During the second quarter of the 19th
century, a loose-knit group of artists
and writers, collectively known as the
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