Synopses & Reviews
During the years following the Civil War, many artists, including Homer, Church, and Moran, created images of America's scenic wonders and great landscape icons. These works, as well as decorative art objects, popular literature, photographs, and other ephemera helped to make the country's landscape a source of national pride and promoted landscape tourism.
FREDERIC CHURCH, WINSLOW HOMER, AND THOMAS MORAN: Tourism and the American Landscape is a major exhibition mounted by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum which will showcase, for the first time in more than two decades, the museum's extraordinary collection of more than 2000 paintings and drawings, which encompasses the largest grouping of Homer and Church objects in the world. Five original essays will accompany the 200 illustrations.
About the Author
Barbara Bloemink is Cooper-Hewitt's Curatorial Director; Gail Davidson is Head of Cooper-Hewitt's Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design; Floramae McCarron-Cates is Associate Curator of Drawings, Prints, and Graphc Design.