Mobile Museum of Art
October 12, 2024–February 2, 2025
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
June 12–September 17, 2025
(Un)Settled: The Landscape in American Art celebrates the rich, complicated, and evolving topic of the landscape in American art, from its origins in 19th century painting into contemporary art. The show highlights the unsettled, or evolving, conversations around landscape and its relationship to establishing cultural and national identity over the last two centuries. This multidisciplinary project comprises of forty artworks and includes examples of material culture such as furniture, glass, ceramics, and baskets.
Building upon noted Hudson River School paintings, the show offers a deeper look at the topic of landscape through the eyes of different artists, including works by Fidelia Bridges, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, Benny Andrews, William Christenberry, Ana Mendieta, Ed Ruscha, Jeffrey Gibson, and Jacqueline Bishop. Taken together, (Un)Settled offers a more expansive view of the topic, both in terms of the artists/makers and the scenery depicted help foreground multiple historic and cultural perspectives and ensure the conversation includes different regions of the United States and Latin America.
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Washington Allston (Georgetown, South Carolina, 1779–1843, Cambridge, Massachusetts), Coast Scene on the Mediterranean, 1811, Oil on canvas, 40 x 34 in., Columbia Museum of Art, Museum Purchase with funds provided by a bequest of Dr. Robert W. Gibbes III, 1957.14
Thomas Cole (Bolton le Moors, England 1802–1848 Catskill, NY), View in the White Mountains, 1827, Oil on canvas, 25 ³⁄₈ x 35 ³⁄¹₆ in., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Bequest of Daniel Wadsworth, 1848.17
Albert Bierstadt (Solingen, Germany 1830–1902 New York, New York), In the Yosemite Valley, 1866, Oil on canvas, 35 ¹⁄₈ x 50 in., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt Collection, 1905.22
