Exploring Themes in American Art: Landscape Painting

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1. William James Bennett after John Robert Murray, Niagara Falls from the American Side
published 1840, hand-colored aquatint with touches of engraving
sheet: .518 x .648 m (20 3/8 x 25 1/2 in.)
2. Ralph Earl, Thomas Earle, 1800
oil on canvas, .955 x .861 m (37 5/8 x 33 7/8 in.)
3. Thomas Cole, Sunrise in the Catskills, 1826
oil on canvas, .648 x .901 m (25 1/2 x 35 1/2 in.)
4. Asher Brown Durand, Forest in the Morning Light, c. 1855
oil on canvas, .615 x .462 m (24 3/16 x 18 3/16 in.)
5. Jasper Francis Cropsey, The Spirit of War, 1851
oil on canvas, 1.108 x 1.716 m (43 5/8 x 67 9/16 in.)
6. George Inness, The Lackawanna Valley, c. 1856
oil on canvas, .860 x 1.275 m (33 7/8 x 50 3/16 in.)
7. Frederic Edwin Church, El Rio de Luz (The River of Light), 1877
oil on canvas, 1.381 x 2.137 m (54 3/8 x 84 1/8 in.)
8. George Catlin, A Crow Village and the Salmon River Mountains, 1855/1869
oil on card mounted on paperboard, .468 x .625 m (18 7/16 x 24 5/8 in.)
9. Albert Bierstadt, Lake Lucerne, 1858
oil on canvas, 1.829 x 3.048 m (72 x 120 in.)
10. Winslow Homer, On the Trail, c. 1892
watercolor over graphite, .321 x .505 m (12 5/8 x 19 7/8 in.)
11. John Henry Twachtman, Winter Harmony, c. 1890/1900
oil on canvas, .654 x .811 m (25 3/4 x 31 15/16 in.)
12. George Bellows, The Lone Tenement, 1909
oil on canvas, .918 x 1.223 m (36 1/8 x 48 1/8 in.)
13. Edward Hopper, American Landscape, 1920
etching, plate: .187 x .314 m (7 3/8 x 12 3/8 in.)
14. Thomas Hart Benton, Trail Riders, 1964/1965
oil on canvas, 1.426 x 1.880 m (56 1/8 x 74 in.)
15. John Marin, Storm over Taos, 1930
watercolor over graphite, .382 x .532 m (15 1/16 x 20 15/16 in.)
16. Lyonel Feininger, Storm Brewing, 1939
oil on canvas, .482 x .775 m (19 x 30 1/2 in.)
17. Georgia O'Keeffe, Sky above White Clouds I, 1962
oil on canvas, 1.524 x 2.032 m (60 x 80 in.)
18. Joan Mitchell, Land, 1989
oil on canvas, 2.800 x 4.000 m (110 1/4 x 157 1/2 in.)

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