Landscape Painting Comes to America - Katherine L Lewis - Bog

Inspired by the tranquil view waiting to be transferred tocanvas in Constable's English countryside, a new curiositydisturbed the painter's concentration. How did America,escaping her burdened beginnings, come to adapt Europe'sartistic superiority to her own first great school oflandscape painting?Landscape Painting Comes to America, written by a painter,details the development of landscape painting fromblank canvas to exhibition, documenting its long struggleto become a genre unto itself while relating that developmentto its historic migration across an ocean.