A work of art does not appeal to the intellect. It does not appeal to the moral sense. Its aim is to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken emotion...The true beauty of the work consists in the beauty of the sentiment or emotion which it inspires.
Do you ever wonder why you respond to a particular painting? Where some might only see the mountain, others question how long it took to paint and if the places are real. Find answers to these questions and more while discovering how the great age of landscape painting defined the American experience in the What’s in a View?
Now more than a century after these images were created, you can take pleasure in the variety of meanings these paintings hold for you today.
After meandering among and these long ago places, people, and pastoral views, you can even add your comments or observations about a favorite landscape by (comment boxes are below each image on their webpage)
Thanks for visiting. Come often and pleasure in the variety of meanings these paintings hold for you today.
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Artist: Doughty. Thomas (1793-1856)
Title: The Mountain Torrent
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Artist: Penniman. John Ritto (1783-1834). c. 1820
Title: Greek Ruins at Paestum. Italy
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Artist: Codman. Charles (1800-1842). c. 1830
Title: East Cove (fireboard)
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Artist: unknown
Title: Landscape
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Artist: Fisher. Alvan (1792-1863). 1834
Title: The Notch
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Artist: Doughty. Thomas (1793-1856). 1837
Title: Summer in the Catskills
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Artist: Birch. Thomas (1779-1851). c. 1828
Title: Upper Hudson
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Artist: Kensett. John Frederick (1818-1872)
Title: In the Catskills
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Artist: Fisher. Alvan (1792-1863). 1816
Title: The Watering Place
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Artist: Wyant. Alexander Helwig (1836-1892)
Title: Lake George
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Artist: Wyant. Alexander Helwig (1836-1892)
Title: On the Upper Hudson
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Artist: Cranch. Christopher Pearse (1813-1892). c.1850
Title: Landscape. River Running Between Pastures
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Artist: Bierstadt. Albert (1830-1902). 1862
Title: Mt. Ascutney from Claremont. New Hampshire
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Artist: Fisher. Alvan (1792-1863)
Title: The White Mountains
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Artist: DeGrailly. Victor
Title: Niagara Falls
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Artist: Weir. Robert Walter (1803-1889). 1869
Title: View of the Hudson River from West Point
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Artist: Gifford. Sanford Robinson (1823-1880). c.1860
Title: Valley Sunset
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Artist: Bierstadt. Albert (1830-1902)
Title: San Rafael. California
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Artist: Scott. John White Allen (1815-1907). 1853 or 1883
Title: Old Covered Wagon
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Artist: DeGrailly. Victor
Title: View Near Anthony's Nose
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Artist: Codman. Charles
Title: The Wounded Deer
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Artist: Church. Frederick Edwin (1826-1900). 1868
Title: Sunset in the Tropics
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Artist: Gignoux. Francois Regis (1816-1882). illegible
Title: Mountain Valley
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Artist: DeGrailly. Victor. 1844
Title: Monument to Kosciuszko at West Point
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Artist: Brown. Harrison Bird (1831-1815). c. 1870
Title: Barn Interior
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Artist: Kensett. John Frederick (1818-1872)
Title: Glimpse of Lake George
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Artist: Hinckley. Thomas Hewes (1813-1896). 1866
Title: Cows and Sheep in Pasture
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Artist: Cropsey. Jasper Francis (1823-1900). 1876
Title: Upper Hudson
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Artist: Bricher. Alfred T. (1837-1908). 1868
Title: River Scene
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Artist: Sonntag. William Louis (1822-1900). 1881
Title: Mountain Scene with Stream
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Artist: Inness. George (1825-1894). 1850
Title: March of the Crusaders
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Artist: Casilear. John William (1811-1893). undated
Title: Moonlight
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Artist: Gifford. Robert Swain (1840-1905)
Title: The Cedar Tree Pasture
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Artist: Inness. George (1825-1894)
Title: Landscape
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