Complex Terrain(s)
June 20, 2020 - September 27, 2020
Ilgenfritz, Corridor, and Parlor Galleries
For centuries, artists have rendered the landscape as a means to celebrate, idealize, and connect our human experience to the natural environment. In the nineteenth century, American artists depicted the breathtaking and sublime vistas discovered through westward expansion and travel. These Romantic landscapes recorded topography, at once bucolic, frightful, and untamed. Depictions of glorious landscapes bolstered a sense national pride, promoted tourism, and provided pastoral antidotes to rapid industrialization. Though our relationship to our surroundings has become increasingly more complex, for artists the landscape still beckons. Contemporary artists’ works celebrate the persistence of beauty in landscape, but also depict areas of distress, regions affected by climate change and places of conflict. This exhibition brings together landscapes intended to evoke the ethereal and divine, such as George Inness and William Trost Richards, with fresh approaches to the genre by modern and contemporary artists, from the Museum’s permanent collection and on loan. This show features a range of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, video, photography, and sculpture.
Selected artists include:
John Noble Barlow, George Bellows, Richard Benson, Francis Adams Comstock, Diane Cook, Ron Cowie, Sally Curcio, Mary Dondero, Durr Freedley, George Inness, Teri Malo, Salvatore Mancini, Sue McNally, Alan Metnick, Joel Meyerowitz, Peter Milton, Liz Nofziger, Joseph Norman, William Trost Richards, Rita Rogers, Francisco Sainz, Aaron Siskind, and more.
To receive a discounted price, you have three options:
If you're not a member:
Purchase a membership along with a class or event registration, and the discount will be applied in your cart.
If you are a member, and you purchased your membership on this website:
log into your account and the discount will be applied in your cart. You can log in before your purchase, or during the checkout process.
If you are a member, and you did not purchase your membership on this website:
Log in with the email address we have on file for you. If you haven't logged into this website before, you'll need to reset your password first.
If you are a member, and you're having an issue logging in:
Purchase a registration for a class or event, and then call or email the museum, and we will be happy to apply the discount to your purchase.