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Description: The Promised Land–The Grayson Family

TitleThe Promised Land–The Grayson Family

Creator nameJewett, William Smith

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1850

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions50 7/8 × 65 in.

LocationTerra Foundation for American Art, Chicago

https://collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/591/the-promised-land--the-grayson-family

Accession number1999.79

SubjectsFamilies in artLandscape painting, American--19th centuryPioneers in artManifest Destiny

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4. Directionality: The Art of Orientation

Alan C. Braddock

Implication: An Ecocritical Dictionary for Art History

This chapter proposes directionality as a key term for ecocritical interpretation, concentrating on the painter Thomas Cole...

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Alan C. Braddock

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00341.5

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23302&redirecttoanchor=39216

Chapter subject tags:EcocriticismHudson River school of landscape paintingCole, Thomas, 1801-1848Environmentalism in artEcology in art

1. The American Identification with the Holy Land

John Davis

Description: The Landscape of Belief: Encountering the Holy Land in Nineteenth-Century American...

The Landscape of Belief: Encountering the Holy Land in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture

This short imperative, declaimed by John Danforth in the Massachusetts Assembly chamber at the beginning of the eighteenth century, contains within its succinct formulation the sentiments constituting the foundation of the nineteenth-century American fascination with the Holy Land. “Israel,” understood as...

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John Davis

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.13-26

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00149.006

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Chapter subject tags:Landscape painting, American--19th centuryPalestine in artMiddle East--History--19th centuryReligion and sociology--United States--19th centuryBible--History of Biblical events--Art

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