Small but Sublime: Intimate Views by Durand, Bierstadt and Inness at The Newark Museum
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Small but Sublime: Intimate Views by Durand, Bierstadt and Inness at The Newark Museum
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), Lake at Franconia Notch, White Mountains, ca. 1860s. Oil on canvas, 13 ½ x 19 ¼ inches. Gift of Dr. J. Ackerman Coles, 1926 26.1165



NEWARK.- The Newark Museum has a superb collection of modestly sized, beautifully painted landscapes from the second half of the nineteenth century. Presented collectively these works provide a compelling overview of the different approaches to landscape painting while underscoring shifts in artistic and social attitudes towards nature.

Beginning with the Hudson River School in the 1820s, landscape served as a vehicle for expressing national identity and intense pride in the sublime wonders of the land. Artists associated with this movement, such as Albert Bierstadt, Asher B. Durand and Jasper Cropsey, were intent on creating realistic and recognizable American scenes.

During the Civil War and particularly in the years following, artists became increasingly cosmopolitan, turning to Europe for inspiration. The ardent nationalism of the Hudson River School waned as French landscape painting influenced a younger generation of painters. George Inness, John Pope and Mary Moran adopted the muted colors, cloudy weather conditions and loose paint application of French Barbizon art. By the 1890s, Impressionism with its broken brushstrokes and brilliant hues became the avant-garde style in America.

At the end of the century, small, intimate scenes of a cultivated and civilized land conveyed artists' personal reactions to nature, frequently resulting in poetic, spiritual and mystical visions that translated and transformed the natural environment.










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