Volume 45, Number 19 · December 3, 1998
Grand Illusions
By James Fenton
New Worlds from Old: 19th Century Australian and American Landscapes Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, September 12, 1998-January 4, 1999, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 26-April 18, 1999.
an exhibition traveling from Canberra and Melbourne to the Wadsworth, Catalog of the exhibition by Elizabeth Johns, by Andrew Sayers, by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, with Amy Ellis
National Gallery of Australia/ Wadsworth Atheneum, 271 pp., $39.95 (paper)
Thomas Moran
catalog of the traveling exhibition, edited by Nancy K. Anderson, with contributions from Thomas P. Bruhn, by Joni L. Kinsey, by Anne Morand
National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press, 400 pp., $60.00
The artist with the fourteen-foot-wide canvas on the brain is the English-born American painter Thomas Moran, described by a contemporary in 1872, but it could have been any one of several American landscape painters of the day. Big was good. Big was appreciated. We are told by the art historian Barbara Novak that the public liked to bring their opera glasses to view the grand canvases when they went on display.
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