American Landscapes

A tour of some of the great American landscape paintings in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, focusing both on their artistic beauty and on what they suggest about nature and about America itself. Click on the links below for images of the paintings and more information about them. For links to more of my video tours of the Philadelphia Museum of Art subscribe to my channel or visit this website: https://johnimmerwahr.org/youtubes/.

Music by brysonempmusic.com.

Mountain Stream, Asher Durand, 1848
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/asher-brown-durand-1796-1886-mountain-stream-6074163-details.aspx,
On loan to the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Dana Beach, Manchester, Fitz Henry Lane and Mary Blood Mellen, American, 1860
https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/307378.html?mulR=673315357|5

Pichincha, Frederic Edwin Church,1867
https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/95643.html?mulR=1883585263|10

North Fork of the Platte, Nebraska, 1863, Albert Bierstadt
https://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Albert-Bierstadt/North-Fork-Of-The-Platte-Nebraska.html
On loan to the Philadelphia Museum of Art

A Coming Storm, Sanford Gifford, 1863. Retouched 1880
https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/94025.html?mulR=1452361780|1

Also:
American Progress, John Gast, Autry Museum of the American West, 1872
Autry Museum
http://collections.theautry.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=M545330;type=101

Видео American Landscapes канала John Immerwahr