Landscape Painting Comes to America: A World Journey from Classic through Plein Air—Apelles through Inness by Katherine L. Lewis

Inspired by the tranquil view waiting to be transferred to canvas in Constable’s English countryside, a new curiosity disturbed the painter’s concentration. How did America, escaping her burdened beginnings, come to adapt Europe’s artistic superiority to her own first great school of landscape painting?

Landscape Painting Comes to America, written by a painter, details the development of landscape painting from blank canvas to exhibition, documenting its long struggle to become a genre unto itself while relating that development to its historic migration across an ocean.

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