Skip to main content

The Painted Sketch: American impressions from nature, 1830-1880, February 14 - May 9, 1999

 Sub-Series

Scope and Contents note

This exhibition featured some ninety American landscape paintings drawn from public and private collections. Works by Hudson River School painters and other nineteenth-century artists, including Thomas Cole, Frederick Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, and Asher B. Durand, traced the emergence of the oil sketch as a singular and special work of art.

Dates

  • February 14 - May 9, 1999

Conditions Governing Access

Loan material in Box 44, Folder 16 is permanently closed for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 45 Linear Feet (131 boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Archives Repository