American Paradise is a new project that reframes the history of the Hudson River School to give visibility to the many women who were affiliated with this iconic movement but who have been largely omitted from the canon. The title of the project–invoked critically–takes its name from American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, an exhibition catalog published in 1987 by the Met that perpetuates the mythology of the Hudson River School as being founded by, and exclusively comprised of, men.
In fact, as early as 1818—seven years before its ostensible founding in 1825—women were painting scenes of the Catskills and beyond in styles ascribed to the movement’s “founding fathers,” Asher Durand and Thomas Cole.
View Exhibitions:
American Paradise at Jack Barrett
Women Reframe American Landscape at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site and traveling to the New Britain Museum of American Art
Value Studies at PATRON
ID: Formations of the Self at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center
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American Paradise is a new project that reframes the history of the Hudson River School to give visibility to the many women who were affiliated with this iconic movement but who have been largely omitted from the canon. The title of the project–invoked critically–takes its name from American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, an exhibition catalog published in 1987 by the Met that perpetuates the mythology of the Hudson River School as being founded by, and exclusively comprised of, men.
In fact, as early as 1818—seven years before its ostensible founding in 1825—women were painting scenes of the Catskills and beyond in styles ascribed to the movement’s “founding fathers,” Asher Durand and Thomas Cole.
View Exhibitions:
American Paradise at Jack Barrett
Women Reframe American Landscape at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site and traveling to the New Britain Museum of American Art
Value Studies at PATRON
ID: Formations of the Self at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center
View Related Press and Other Texts:
e-flux
Boston Globe
New York Times
Washington Post
Artnet
Hyperallergic
Art-agenda
