The Romantic Impulse In the American Landscape Tradition

The Romantic Impulse in the American Landscape Tradition traces the unique responses of American painters and printmakers to changing ideas about landscape from the early 19th century to the present day.  

The exhibition centers on the Timken's highly romanticized view, Opus 24: Rome, from the Campagna, Sunset (1867), an early work by Thomas Moran, and considers how sublime space, ancient ruins and pastoral poetics were expressed by a surprisingly wide variety of artists: Albert Bierstadt, Arthur Wesley Dow, William Keith and others.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.         

Image: Thomas Moran, Opus 24: Rome, from the Campagna, Sunset (1867)