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Frederic Edwin Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape URL: http://www.cooperhewitt.org/exhibitions/tourism_in_america/index.asp Description: Companion to a 2006 exhibit that "explores the promotion of scenic tourism in nineteenth-century America" through works by Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran. Click on the map of the U.S. to see images and associated text about how "these painters recorded, romanticized, and sometimes embellished views of Niagara, Maine, the Catskills, Yellowstone, Yosemite, and other scenic locations, stimulating a burgeoning America to become a nation of tourists." From the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. LII Topics: Painting & Painters, Painting & Painters Publisher: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Extra Keywords Smithsonian LII Database Information: Record 25391 created by Maria Brandt on 02/04/2008 Last modification on 02/04/2008 Published: 02/07/2008 Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25391 |
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