Landscape art in the early 19th century was guided by two rival concepts: the picturesque, which emphasized touristic pleasures and visual delight, and the sublime, an aesthetic category rooted in notions of fear and danger. British artists including...

An important reconsideration of landscape photography in 19th-century America, exploring crucial but neglected geographies, practitioners, and themes. Although pictures of the West have dominated our perception of 19th-century American landscape pho...

Frederic Church (1826-1900), the most celebrated painter in the United States during the mid-19th century, created monumental landscapes of North and South America, the Arctic, and the Middle East. These paintings were unsurpassed in their attention...