Samuel Lancaster Gerry (1813���1891)
View of the Valley
Oil on canvas
24 1/8 x 48 3/16 inches
pect of the school. They memorialize
the hope, religious fervor, awe of the
wilderness, encroaching civilization,
mysticism, sublimity, geological interest and boundless sense of autonomy
and freedom that were hallmarks of
the School and much of America, certainly until the Civil War. Thereafter, the
School continued, though decidedly
altered.
I am drawn first to Thomas Doughty���s
Seacoast. A lone figure, most probably the artist, stands atop an outcropping of rock above a forestbound lake
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Thomas Doughty
(1793���1856)
Seacoast
Oil on canvas
22 5/16 x 28 1/2
inches
