3 pages paper

Caught Between the Brush and the Lens: 19th Century

Landscape

Group Members:

ARS 456/598

02/14/18

This exhibition will compare the 19th century works of landscape painters with

early landscape photographs. In doing so, it will demonstrate how landscape paintings

and photography influenced how people saw their surroundings and how the two

mediums relate both stylistically and representationally. For example, within 19th

century painting, the Hudson River School and French Impressionism both emphasized

the beauty of surrounding landscape, but the former sought to elevate it to an idealistic

and romanticized image while the latter depicted life as it was. The idealization of the

former is further emphasized when compared to 19th century landscape photographs.

The photographs will serve as contrasting, striking images that display the raw beauty of

landscape without the distortion of ‘the artist’s lens.’ For centuries, the paint-brush

dominated the world of artistic expression because it fulfilled the need to record what

was seen while photography allowed for nearly immediate capturings of the fleeting

moment. The new technology of the era merging into the world of traditional techniques

from the masters created an artistic separation between what is and what was. The

exhibition will dive into the views of the artists and their motivations behind the works

that they produced and how their forms compare and contrast. When it came to

landscapes, the introduction to photography re-awakened the idea of untouched nature

as if the photographs made it all the more real to the public. Early Photographers like

Francis Bedford were commissioned to produce photographs from ancient sites and he

did so, capturing them in their most simplistic forms revealing an unromanticized scene

to the world. This shift in the artist’s viewpoint from canvas to print defined the century in

more ways than one.

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Object List

George Kendall Warren, From Trophy Point, West Point, Hudson River, c. 1867–1868, albumen print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Robert Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2017/east-of-the-mississippi.html

Hermann Fuechsel (1833– 1915) Hudson River Above West Point https://www.questroyalfineart.com/hudson-river-above-west-point/

Niagara, photograph, 1855, Possibly by SiObject Listlas A. Holmes

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1997.382.52/

Niagara

(1857)

Oil on canvas

Frederic Edwin Church

30.5 x 40.4 cm (12 x 15 7/8 in. ) irregular https://images.nga.gov/en/search/do_quick_search.html?q=%222014.79.10%22

Chattanooga, Tennessee, from Lookout Mountain (1863-1865)

Albumen print

Isaac H. Bonsall (American, 1833-1909)

10 1/4 in. x 13 1/4 in. (26.04 cm x 33.66 cm)

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/PST1054

A Gorge in the Mountains (Kaaterskill Clove)

(1862)

Oil on canvas

Sanford R. Gifford

48 x 39 7/8 in. (121.9 x 101.3 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Peter Britt, Crater Lake, 1874 https://www.nps.gov/rlc/craterlake/artist-in-residence.htm

Cathedral Rocks, with lake and trees in foreground, Yosemite Valley, Calif. Carlton Watkins https://www.loc.gov/item/95514284/

Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley Albert Bierstadt

Thomas Cole (1801–1848), The Oxbow, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (1836), oil on canvas, 130.8x 193 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and- americas/enlightenment-revolution/a/cole-the-oxbow