From the Schuylkill to the Hudson: Landscapes of the Early American Republic

From the Schuylkill to the Hudson: Landscapes of the Early American Republic¬†will delve into the important and underexplored tradition of landscape representation in Philadelphia from the Early American Republic to the Centennial Exhibition (1876) and how that corpus shaped the better-known Hudson River School. Philadelphia’s key role in the growth of American landscape painting has never been the subject of a major museum exhibition.¬†