The Lackawanna Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania was home to the Lenni-Lenape peoples for centuries before the arrival of Europeans. The word Lackawanna comes from a Lenape term meaning “stream that forks,� which describes the Lackawanna River.
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 13, repro. pl.
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Latin America, with its rich histories and cultures — as well as dense jungles, towering volcanoes, and mountain ranges — fascinated American artists in the mid-19th century. Frederic Edwin Church traveled in the tropics and used the sketches he made in different locations to create popular landscape paintings.
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A pleasant sense of ease and harmony pervades this landscape of almost photographic clarity. The large areas of brilliant sunshine and cool shade, the rambling line of the fence, and the beautiful balance of trees, meadow, and river are evidence of the artist’s creative synthesis of the actual site.
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Renaissance artist Raphael was famous in his own time. It is easy to understand why.
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This model was likely an immigrant from the rural region near Rome. Corot dressed her in traditional costume and placed her in an Italian landscape.
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