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First Wednesdays Talk
May 1, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Natural Icons and National Identity: Frederic Church’s Landscapes
Wednesday, May 1, 7 pm
Frederic Church painted landscapes of distinctive American features, including Natural Bridge in Virginia and Niagara Falls in New York. Eleanor Jones Harvey, senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, explores how and why we used these American landscapes to distinguish the scale and scope of our cultural ambitions.