In the late 19th century, influential artists traveled extensively in the U.S. painting picturesque landscapes. The paintings — along with guidebooks, travel-related photographs and novels — prompted a new and burgeoning tourist industry. Many of these works are collected in the exhibition “Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape” at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center.
Tourism and the American Landscape
In the late 19th century, influential artists traveled extensively in the U.S. painting picturesque landscapes. The paintings -- along with guidebooks, travel-related photographs and novels -- prompted a new and burgeoning tourist industry. Many of these works are collected in the exhibition "Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape" at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center.
Guests:
Patience Young, curator for education at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
Floramae McCarron-Cates, associate curator of drawings, prints and graphic design at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Gail Davidson, curator and head of the department of drawings, prints and graphic design at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum