* American Scenery: Different Views at Fitchburg Art Museum

American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting
 
     
     This exhibit offers over one hundred exceptional artworks from the Westmoreland Museum of American Art. Apart from the horrific Civil War, period of 1825-1875 was a time of proud national expansion. The Hudson River School is considered by many to be the first truly American school of painting.  Artists in this dynamic exhibition include major figures of the movement such as Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, John Frederick Kensett, and William Sonntag.
     The artists of the Hudson River School had an unlimited appetite for direct observation of the landscape around them, fed by a belief in both the beauty and spirituality of nature. They were inspired by the continual change in the natural world. Seasons, times of day, weather conditions, and various effects of light are just some of the factors they captured on canvas in order to depict the sublime versus the picturesque, man's intrusion in or harmony with the land, and the overarching power of a higher, universal spirit.
     Responding to this exhibition, Fitchburg Art Museum photography consultant Stephen Jareckie organized Different Views: Landscape Photographs from the Museum's Collections. This dynamic series of color, and black and white images included photographers Paul Caponigro, John Sexton, Aaron Siskind, Minor White and others.
 
 
Sunday, September 23
1-4 PM