Thomas Cole's artistic skill and aesthetic sensibility share the limelight with his interests in religion and the natural world. The exhibit continues the movement to reevaluate nineteenth-century art in terms of social trends and sponsors.
THE EXHIBITION The West as America, organized in 1991 by the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. (see ANTIQUES, March 1991, pp. 542-555), was in the vanguard of a revisionist movement in art history that continues to gather momentum. ...