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Through more than 100 works, including an in-depth presentation of the Seattle Art Museum鈥檚 painting Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast (1870) by Albert Bierstadt, Beauty and Bounty surveys great 19th and early 20th-century American landscape paintings and photographs, showing American artists鈥� responses as they encountered the North American continent鈥檚 ever-expanding vastness of natural beauty and nature鈥檚 bounty. The exhibition presents a rare opportunity to view great works of American art that have rarely鈥攐r never鈥攂een seen by the greater public.

Painters including Sanford Gifford, Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran gave form to landscapes of once unimaginable character, as they crossed the continent on expeditions through the plains and the mountains of the Great West. Beauty and Bounty includes 45 of these majestic works鈥攎any of which are held in private collections and were previously unknown to the public. Also included in the exhibition are approximately 60 landscape photographs, including mammoth plate images by the pioneers of the western photography, including Carleton Watkins, Edward Muybridge, and Timothy O鈥橲ullivan.

The paintings and photographs on view demonstrate that it was often these artist-explorers who were raising important questions about humankind鈥檚 place in the world and how best to respond to a continent that many at the time viewed as a divine blessing of beauty and bounty from nature.

鈥揚atricia Junker, The Ann M. Barwick Curator of American Art, Seattle Art Museum

This exhibition is showing in conjunction with Reclaimed