The Panoramic River: the Hudson and the Thames
In the late 18th century, British artists developed the large-scale panorama, which became a popular form of entertainment in Europe and the United States. The Hudson River Museum鈥檚 exhibition The Panoramic River: the Hudson and the Thames explores the panoramic vista as the ideal expression for a new, all-embracing way of seeing the landscape that influenced how the public and artists perceived it as well. By the early 19th century, painters such as Robert Havell Jr. worked to express this panoramic perspective in their choice and depiction of vistas. Havell, who emigrated from London to New York, exemplifies the influx of English artists who influenced a shared Anglo-American panoramic vocabulary as well as the evolution of American landscape painting. Havell, whose work includes panoramic publications and paintings of the Hudson River and the Thames, like other artists in the exhibition such as Thomas Cole, Jasper Cropsey and John Kensett, favored the chain of cities, suburbs and countryside along these two rivers, where horizontal planes and historical associations gave form to both artistic and cultural expression.
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In the late 18th century, British artists developed the large-scale panorama, which became a popular form of entertainment in Europe and the United States. The Hudson River Museum鈥檚 exhibition The Panoramic River: the Hudson and the Thames explores the panoramic vista as the ideal expression for a new, all-embracing way of seeing the landscape that influenced how the public and artists perceived it as well. By the early 19th century, painters such as Robert Havell Jr. worked to express this panoramic perspective in their choice and depiction of vistas. Havell, who emigrated from London to New York, exemplifies the influx of English artists who influenced a shared Anglo-American panoramic vocabulary as well as the evolution of American landscape painting. Havell, whose work includes panoramic publications and paintings of the Hudson River and the Thames, like other artists in the exhibition such as Thomas Cole, Jasper Cropsey and John Kensett, favored the chain of cities, suburbs and countryside along these two rivers, where horizontal planes and historical associations gave form to both artistic and cultural expression.
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