Beginning in November, the Loveland Museum will host In Nature’s Studio: Two Centuries of American Landscape Paintings. Drawn from the collection of Reading Public Museum, this rich exhibition features the bounty and beauty of American landscape painting from the early 19th century through the early 21st century. It explores the Hudson River School and the emergence of impressionism and tonalism at the turn of the century as well as modernist trends in landscape interpretation.
More than 65 paintings help tell the story of American art from its refined naturalistic foundations to the absorption and assimilation of avant-garde movements from Europe reinterpreted within the American context. Landscape artists from the 19th century include Thomas Birch, Frederic Church, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Aaron Draper Shattuck, Paul Weber and Hermann Herzog. The shift from impressionism and tonalism in turn of-the-century America is demonstrated through the works of George Inness, Ralph Albert Blakelock, John Francis Murphy, N.C. Wyeth, Childe Hassam and Robert Spencer, among others.
Modernist landscapes by George Bellows, Arthur Bowen Davies, Benton Spruance, John Fulton Folinsbee and Andrew Wyeth chart the path to abstract and expressionistic compositions in the 20th century and beyond.
Exhibition Details
In Nature’s Studio: Two Centuries of American Landscape Painting
Main gallery: Nov. 23, 2024-Feb. 8, 2025, Admission: $7 Ages 13+
Website: thelovelandmuseum.org/in-natures-studio
Free admission days: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Dec. 4, 2024 and Jan. 2, 2025