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Transcendentalism and the American Landscape


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Thomas Cole

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Asher Brown Durand

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Albert Bierstadt

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Many painters of the early nineteenth century looked to Nature as a meaningful presence, a manifestation of God’s divine work, and a part of the divine with which any and all individuals could interact. These transcendentalist painters captured the grandeur and romance of the American landscape in their paintings, much as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson and William Cullen Bryant did in their writing.

 
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Dwight William Tryon