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Peter John Brownlee (Editor), Valéria Piccoli (Editor), Georgiana Uhlyarik (Editor)

Description: Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic

Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic

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Author

Peter John Brownlee (Editor), Valéria Piccoli (Editor), Georgiana Uhlyarik (Editor)

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

PublisherYale University Press

Copyright© 2015 Art Gallery of Ontario, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and Terra Foundation for American Art

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21836

Contents

Foreword
Elizabeth Glassman, Ivo Mesquita and Matthew Teitelbaum

Lenders to the Exhibition

INTRODUCTION: Landscape Painting across the Americas: An Inquiry
Peter John Brownlee, Valéria Piccoli and Georgiana Uhlyarik

CHAPTER ONE: LAND ICON NATION

OVERVIEW
Katherine Manthorne

CASE STUDY: From Urban Metropolis to Cosmic Spectacle: The Valley of Mexico in Landscape Imagery
Fausto Ramírez Rojas

CASE STUDY: Nature and History in the Construction of Félix Émile Taunay’s Guanabara Bay Seen from Snake Island
Claudia Valladão de Mattos

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS

Cornelius Krieghoff, Montmorency Falls
Mario Béland

Prilidiano Pueyrredón, The Rodeo
Lía Munilla

Albert Bierstadt, Yosemite Valley
Elizabeth Hutchinson

Rafael Troya, Cotopaxi (View of the Oriental Mountain Range from Tiopullo)
Alexandra Kennedy-Troya

Onofre Jarpa, In the Chillán Mountain Range, Manzano Ravine
Catalina Valdés

CHAPTER TWO: FIELD TO STUDIO

OVERVIEW
Valéria Piccoli

CASE STUDY: Landscape Painting in the Work of Traveling Artists: The Artistic Concept of Johann Moritz Rugendas
Pablo Diener

CASE STUDY: Frederic Edwin Church: North and South
Jennifer Raab

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS

Charles-Othon-Frédéric-Jean-Baptiste, Comte de Clarac, Primeval Forest in Brazil
Leticia Squeff

William G.R. Hind, The Conjuror in His Vapour Bath or Medicine Lodge, Table Land, Labrador Peninsula
Mary Jo Hughes

Martin Johnson Heade, Tropical Landscape with Ten Hummingbirds
Maggie M. Cao

Ferdinand Bellermann, Guácharo Cave
Rafael Romero

Paul Kane, Half Breed Encampment and The Athabasca in the Mountains
Kenneth R. Lister

Thomas Moran, Lower Falls, Yellowstone Park
Eleanore Neumann

CHAPTER THREE: LAND ENCOUNTER TERRITORY

OVERVIEW
Indigenous Lands/Settler Landscapes: Art Histories Out of Joint
Ruth B. Phillips

CASE STUDY: Frances Anne Hopkins and The Red River Expedition at Kakabeka Falls
Anna Hudson

CASE STUDY: Cándido López, Pedro Américo and the Iconography of the Paraguayan War
Roberto Amigo

CASE STUDY: Arts of Dispossession
Jolene Rickard

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS

Thomas Cole, Landscape with Figures: A Scene from “The Last of the Mohicans”
Kenneth John Myers

Joseph Légaré, Landscape with Monument to Wolfe
Daniel Drouin

Francisco Laso, Haravicu
Natalia Majluf

José Maria de Medeiros, Iracema
Alexander Gaiotto Miyoshi

CHAPTER FOUR: LAND AS RESOURCE

OVERVIEW
Peter John Brownlee

CASE STUDY: On the Margins of Painting: Nature in the Andean Imagination, c. 1800–1900
Natalia Majluf

CASE STUDY: Landscapes of Desire: The Land as Resource in the Caribbean
Edward J. Sullivan

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS

Félix Émile Taunay, View of a Native Forest Being Reduced to Coal
Elaine Dias

Alessandro Ciccarelli, View of Santiago from Peñalolén
Catalina Valdés

Nicolau Facchinetti, São Tomé das Letras
Carlos Martins

Eugenio Landesio and José María Velasco, Hacienda de Monte Blanco
Alberto Nulman Magidin

Lucius R. O’Brien, Kakabeka Falls, Kamanistiquia River
Gregory Humeniuk

Johann Georg Grimm, View of Icaraí Point
Rafael Cardoso

George Inness, Summer Evening, Montclair, New Jersey
Elizabeth Finch

Maurice Cullen, Ice Harvest
Michèle Grandbois

CHAPTER FIVE: LAND TRANSFORMED

OVERVIEW
Laura Malosetti Costa

CASE STUDY: Landscape as Fordscape
John O’Brian

CASE STUDY: Tarsila’s São Paulo
Regina Teixeira de Barros

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS

Reinaldo Giudici, The First Train “La Porteña” Crossing the Countryside
Aldo Ramella Opazo

L. Graves, The Devil’s Nose
Alexandra Kennedy-Troya

José Cúneo Perinetti, The Stream
Gabriel Peluffo Linari

Grant Wood, Fall Plowing
Jason Weems

José Pancetti, Port
Fernanda Pitta

Joaquín Torres García, Constructive City with Universal Man
Gabriel Peluffo Linari

Juan O’Gorman, Souvenir of Los Remedios
Peter Krieger

CHAPTER SIX: ICON NATION SELF

OVERVIEW
Georgiana Uhlyarik

CASE STUDY: The Pampa as a Territory without Landscape
Gabriel Peluffo Linari

CASE STUDY: Mother Earth and the Spirit of Eternity: Lawren S. Harris’s Grounded Icebergs and the North American Landscape in Ecstasy
Sara Angel

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS

David Milne, Dark Pool, Ti Magami
Ihor Holubizky

Emily Carr, Inside a Forest II
Kristina Huneault

Georgia O’Keeffe, Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico/Out Back of Marie’s II
Carolyn Kastner

Gerardo Murillo (“Dr. Atl”), The Shadow of Popo
Peter Krieger

Armando Reverón, The Tree
Ariel Jiménez

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Description: Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic

BOOKPicturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic

Peter John Brownlee (Editor), Valéria Piccoli (Editor), Georgiana Uhlyarik (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00273

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21835

As nations in the Americas gained independence in the early nineteenth century, a pictorial landscape tradition emerged. By 1840, landscape painting had become the primary medium for articulating conceptions of land and nation in the development of North and South American cultural identity. Picturing the Americas offers the first comprehensive treatment of this genre on both American continents, bringing into dialogue the landscape traditions of artists practicing between 1840 and 1940.

The book includes works by U.S. artists Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church, and Georgia O’Keeffe; Canadian artists Joseph Légaré, Frances Anne Hopkins, and Lawren Harris; Mexico’s José María Velasco, Uruguay’s Joaquín Torres-García, and Brazil’s Tarsila do Amaral, among many others. Leading scholars offer a Pan-American perspective on these landscape traditions: essays consider the emergence of modernism, as well as how the development of landscape imagery reflects the intricately intertwined geographies and sociopolitical histories of the peoples, nations, regions, and diasporas of the two continents.

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Author

Peter John Brownlee (Editor), Valéria Piccoli (Editor), Georgiana Uhlyarik (Editor)

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

Yale University Press

Print publication date August 2015 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300211504

EISBN 9780300265835

Copyright© 2015 Art Gallery of Ontario, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and Terra Foundation for American Art

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