Green woods & crystal waters : the American landscape tradition
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Green woods & crystal waters : the American landscape tradition
Philbrook Museum of Art , Distributed in association with the University of Washington Press, c1999
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Green woods and crystal waters
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Catalog of an exhibition held at the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Okla., Sept. 12-Nov. 7, 1999, the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Fla., Jan. 14-Mar. 19, 2000, and the Davenport Museum of Art, Iowa, Apr. 16-June 24, 2000
Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-173) and index
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Green Woods and Crystal Waters examines American landscape painting in the second half of the 20th century through the works of 89 artists. Keeping the city at a safe distance, it focuses on the pastoral views and dramatic wilderness that have provided such a powerful American subject for over two centuries. Formally and expressively diverse, the works range from the objective depiction of the physical appearance of nature to the romantic or mystical use of landscape as a vehicle for poetic and spiritual concerns to the expressionist's reshaping of nature to follow the curvature of interior moods. Each of these very different approaches is central to our visual tradition and has colored our portrayals of the landscape.
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