American Landscape exhibition opens at Brandywine Museum

- Upcoming Exhibition: March 19, 2016 to June 12, 2016

The Poetry of Nature: A Golden Age of American Landscape Painting

Masterworks by Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, John F. Kensett, William T. Richards, William L. Sonntag, and other giants of the Hudson River School will be on view at the Brandywine River Museum Art from March 19 through June 12, 2016.

The Hudson River School is considered the first art movement in America and one that celebrated the country’s natural beauty. These stunning paintings depict boundless vistas of stately forests, magnificent mountains, gleaming rivers and lakes, and luminous skies. This exhibition, organized by the New-York Historical Society from their vast holdings of works by the Hudson River School, features over 40 paintings created between 1818 and 1886 by more than 25 celebrated American artists, also including Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Chambers, Sanford Gifford, Thomas H. Hotchkiss, Jervis McEntee, Louisa Minot, Francis A. Silva, and Josephine Walters.

Curator: Dr. Linda S. Ferber, Senior Art Historian & Museum Director Emerita, New-York Historical Society Museum