From Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic: Landscape Painting in the Americas
- Ongoing: until Monday, January 18, 2016
- Monday: 11:00am
- Wednesday: 11:00am
- Thursday: 11:00am
- Friday: 11:00am
- Saturday: 10:00am
- Saturday: 10:00am
- Where: Crystal Bridges, Bentonville
- Cost: Not available
- Age limit: Not available
Artistic representation of human interaction with the land has a long history in the Americas. During the early years of the 19th century, as nations in the Americas gained and asserted their independence, pictorial representations of the landscape forged visions of the whole hemisphere. Landscape imagery of the period shows how we are connected by a shared Pan-American history, but also underscores the differences between our respective national identities based on our relationships to the land.
The exhibition features approximately 120 oil paintings, watercolors, photographs, prints, maps, books, and three-dimensional objects, including works by well-known American landscape painters Albert Bierstadt, Frederic E. Church, Thomas Cole, Martin Johnson Heade, and Georgia O’Keeffe, as well as masters of the genre from both north and south of the United States, such as Jose Maria Velasco (Mexico), Francisco Oller (Puerto Rico), and Juan Manuel Blanes (Uruguay), among others.
From Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic: Landscape Painting in the Americas is a collaboration between three organizing institutions: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; and the Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, USA. It will open at the Art Gallery of Ontario during the Pan American Games in Toronto before traveling to Crystal Bridges, and then to the Pinacoteca in São Paulo, Brazil.
This event was posted Nov. 16, 2014 and last updated Nov. 16, 2014
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