American Places: Painting the Landscape in the Nineteenth Century
Garen Gallery
American Places explores the breadth of practices and responses to place in significant nineteenth-century American landscape painting in the Kemper Art Museum and St. Louis area collections. From New England villages to southern bayous, from the Delaware River to Indian Territory, the places depicted in these works reflect dramatic transformations in the composition of cultural identity over the course of a century that experienced profound social change and modernization.
The exhibition features approximately 30 paintings spanning the nineteenth century, by Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Childe Hassam, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, William Trost Richards, Dwight William Tryon, John Henry Twachtman, Charles Ferdinand Wimar, Alexander Helwig Wyant, and others.
American Places is curated by Karen K. Butler, associate curator, with contributions by Jennifer Padgett and Tia Vasiliou, graduate students in the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences.
American Places: Painting the Landscape in the Nineteenth Century is enhanced by the generosity of several lenders, to whom we are deeply grateful: Sam and Marilyn Fox, the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and John S. Ford, Jr.
Financial support is provided by James M. Kemper, Jr.; the David Woods Kemper Memorial Foundation; the William T. Kemper Foundation; the Hortense Lewin Art Fund; Diane DeMell Jacobsen, PhD; and members of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
Selected works
![1987_4.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1980_1989/1987_4.tif.jpg)
Thomas Cole
Aqueduct near Rome
1832![2171.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2171.tif.jpg)
George Caleb Bingham
Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap
1851–52![4335.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4335.tif.jpg)
Charles Ferdinand Wimar
The Abduction of Daniel Boone's Daughter by the Indians
1853![3411.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3411.tif.jpg)
Charles Ferdinand Wimar
The Buffalo Hunt
1860![3410.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3410.tif.jpg)
Charles Ferdinand Wimar
Indians Approaching Fort Union
c. 1859![2194.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2194.tif.jpg)
John Frederick Kensett
Landscape
1848![4064.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4064.tif.jpg)
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Early October in the White Mountains
1860![2182.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2182.tif.jpg)
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Rheinstein
1872–74![2175.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2175.tif.jpg)
Frederic Edwin Church
Twilight: Mount Desert Island, Maine
1865![1998_02.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1990_1999/1998_02.jpg)
George Inness
Landscape
1867![2189.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2189.jpg)
George Inness
New England Village (Catskill Cove)
1866![2203.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2203.jpg)
William Trost Richards
Marine
1874![4063.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4063.tif.jpg)
Eastman Johnson
The Cranberry Pickers (A Study)
1876![2178.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2178.tif.jpg)
Asher Brown Durand
A New England Landscape
1870![2225.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2225.tif.jpg)
Alexander Helwig Wyant
Landscape
19th century![2174.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2174.tif.jpg)
Frederic Edwin Church
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
1883![4264.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4264.tif.jpg)
Joseph Rusling Meeker
Landscape (Bayou)
1879![2190.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2190.tif.jpg)
George Inness
Storm on the Delaware
1891![2699.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2699.tif.jpg)
John Henry Twachtman
House in Landscape
c. 1890![2209.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2209.tif.jpg)
Dwight William Tryon
Before Sunrise (Morning Twilight, at Daybreak)
1906–7![2224.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2224.tif.jpg)
Edmund Henry Wuerpel
An Evening Song
19th century![2186.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2186.tif.jpg)
Childe Hassam
Diamond Cove, Isles of Shoals
1908Support
American Places: Painting the Landscape in the Nineteenth Century is enhanced by the generosity of several lenders, to whom we are deeply grateful: Sam and Marilyn Fox, the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and John S. Ford, Jr.
Financial support is provided by James M. Kemper, Jr.; the David Woods Kemper Memorial Foundation; the William T. Kemper Foundation; the Hortense Lewin Art Fund; Diane DeMell Jacobsen, PhD; and members of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.