those scenes that became imprinted on the American consciousness. By the end of the nineteenth and beginning of
the twentieth century, their memory substantially contributed
to the creation of the National Parks system. To this day, the
paintings in the Questroyal ���Freedom Rings��� exhibition are not
only noteworthy artistically, but they incorporate the core tendency, the freedom to wander into ungoverned territory, at
home and abroad.
The mighty Hudson, through a network of vast canals, led to
the Great Lakes, the Mississippi and the far West. These Questroyal paintings led the way: they are the prodigy of a manifest
destiny driven by a young republic���s sense of divine purpose.
In these works, we see the result of what happens when freedom rings, when you take your flute as Cole did, climb a precipice, take it out of your back pocket, play to nature and then
paint a masterpiece. Many Americans have the same sense
of wanderlust, albeit at the end of the climb, the view is our
artful creation through the camera eye, and a whistle will do.
Now, durng the computer era, it behooves us to know these
Hudson River artists. Yesterday nature, today science. Let us
hope that in America and elsewhere in the world, multifaceted
individuals may thrive, thereby enabling a better future. H
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