{"id":7176,"date":"2016-02-26T22:03:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T22:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=7176"},"modified":"2016-02-26T22:11:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T22:11:12","slug":"nature-and-the-american-vision-the-birth-of-original-american-art-on-view-in-milwaukee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=7176","title":{"rendered":"“Nature and the American Vision,” the birth of original American art on view in Milwaukee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Catskill Lake, N.Y.” By Thomas Cole, one of the co-founders of the Hudson River School.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s my review of the extraordinary Milwaukee Art Museum exhibit\u00a0Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School<\/em>\u00a0 in OnMilwaukee.com:http:\/\/onmilwaukee.com\/ent\/articles\/mamhudsonriverschool.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are a few extra images from the show that I comment on in the review, plus a few notes at the bottom.<\/p>\n

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Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830-1902)Donner Lake from the Summit, 1873Oil on canvas: 72 1\/8 x 120 3\/16 in. (183.2 x 305.3 cm)Gift of Archer Milton Huntington, 1909.16<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Donner<\/p>\n

Here’s a photo of the still-imposing Donner Pass today, above Donner Lake, which I drove through in 2014. It is the highest point in the Sierra Nevada mountains.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Pioneers<\/p>\n

This painting is not from the Milwaukee Art Museum’s “American Vision” exhibit. It is an artist’s rendering of 1846 Donner party battling the\u00a0<\/em>the blizzard they encountered in the rugged mountain pass that would be named for them.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Niagara Falls” (1818) by Louisa Davis Minot is the earliest Hudson River School painting in the exhibit.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Thomas Cole, “The Course of Empire — The Savage State.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\"1858_4_CourseOfEmpire_Destruction_Cole\"<\/p>\n

Thomas Cole, “The Course of Empire — Destruction.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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This review was originally published in OnMilwaukee.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Here are a few notes about a somewhat comparable show you may have seen at MAM, Masterpieces of American Art, 1770-1920<\/em>, work from the Detroit Institute of Arts.<\/p>\n

1. That 2005 show was more diverse and diffuse but slightly less impressive over all than the Hudson River School show, especially with the new show’s celebrated “The Course of Empire” series by Thomas Cole. However, Masterpieces<\/em> included two works that would enhance this show. There’s nothing quite as spectacular in this show as Hudson River School member Frederic Church’s “Cotopaxi” from that show. But then, there are no active volcanoes to render in North America (another brilliant South American mountain painting by Church, “Cayambe” (1858) is in the new show).<\/p>\n

2. Also, Church’s “Niagara,” in that earlier show, is perhaps the most accomplished and definitive painting of the falls, as impressive as Louisa Davis Minot’s Niagara painting is in the new show.<\/p>\n

3. Cole\u2019s 1836 \u201cDestruction\u201d may have been a model for English Romantic painter John Martin\u2019s 1851 \u201cDestruction of Sodom and Gomorrah,\u201d as the two painting compositions are remarkably similar:<\/p>\n

\"John_Martin_-_Sodom_and_Gomorrah\"<\/p>\n

Reproduction of Albert Bierstadt’s “Donner Lake from Summit” is courtesy\u00a0www.hawthornehotelblog.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>All other images courtesy The Milwaukee Art Museum and The New York Historical Society, unless otherwise noted.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

_ “Catskill Lake, N.Y.” By Thomas Cole, one of the co-founders of the Hudson River School. Here’s my review of the extraordinary Milwaukee Art Museum exhibit\u00a0Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School\u00a0 in OnMilwaukee.com:http:\/\/onmilwaukee.com\/ent\/articles\/mamhudsonriverschool.html Here are a few … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-www-kevernacular-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hJWE-1RK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7176"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7231,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176\/revisions\/7231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}