Rich and poor mingle on the frozen waters of a river. From the lower left corner, a man quietly observes the many skaters.
On View West Building Main Floor, Gallery 44 Order reproductions from the Gallery
In the spring of 1826, Thomas Cole met Robert Gilmor Jr., a highly knowledgeable and sophisticated Baltimore collector, who soon commissioned a view of Catskill Mountain House, a popular hotel overlooking the Hudson River Valley. After a summer spent sketching and painting in the area and corresponding with his patron concerning the selection of a new subject, Cole completed Sunrise in the Catskills in early December and had it delivered to Baltimore on Christmas Day.
This is not a tamed and cultivated portion of the American landscape but a remote, wild
Composer/producer Emily Wells sees us as the buffalo: frozen before downfall, but still alive—which is why she includes so much breath in her song. Wells, whose work deals with the climate crisis, looks to David Wojnarowicz’s AIDS activism for lessons.
One of those 3D installations of the American West that had a painted background,
It reads, “S R Gifford 1865.� On View West Building Main Floor, Gallery 65
Childe Hassam was a regular visitor to the Isles of Shoals, nine small, rocky, treeless islands off the New Hampshire coast. His acquaintance with the islands was due to his poet friend Celia Thaxter, whose house on Appledore Island was a summer mecca for writers, painters, illustrators, musicians, and other artistic visitors.
Here, only a passing sailboat hints that we are not in some pristine, wild environment
Completed in February 1911, New York is a large, ambitious painting in which George Bellows captures the essence of modern life in New York City. Although the viewer looks uptown toward Madison Square from the intersection of Broadway and 23rd Street, Bellows did not intend to represent a specific, identifiable place in the city.
CHARLES BROCK: What I love about it is its wild ambition.
The Minnesota artist’s humanist, ecological pottery contains operating instructions for our shared survival.
He’d get donations of wild rice hulls from the White Earth and Red Lake Indigenous
Experience the wonder of nature through the eyes of artists. Look closely at art depicting insects and other animals alongside real specimens.
the Natural World Details Dates May 18 – November 2, 2025 Locations West
Still lifes with hunting motifs became popular in Dutch art in the latter part of the seventeenth century, at a time when Dutch society grew wealthier and more refined. Willem van Aelst, who worked in Paris and Florence before settling in Amsterdam, was one of the first still-life painters to depict hunting trophies.
This kill includes a white rooster, a wild hare, a partridge, and several songbirds
Venus, as if filled with foreboding about Adonis’s fate, desperately clings to her lover, while he pulls himself free of her embrace, impatient for the hunt and with his hounds straining at the leash. The goddess’s gesture is echoed by that of Cupid, who anxiously watches the lovers’ leave-taking while clutching a dove—a creature sacred to Venus.
™s love for the beautiful young huntsman Adonis, who was tragically killed by a wild
