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Tate Britain Exhibition

American Sublime Landscape Painting in the United States 1820–1880

21 February – 19 May 2002
Frederic Edwin Church Cotopaxi

Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900)Cotopaxi 1862Oil on canvas

The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, Founders' Society Purchase, Robert H Tannahill Foundation Fund, Gibbs-Williams Fund, Dexter M Ferry Jr Fund, Merril Fund, Beatrice W Rogers Fund and Richard A Manoogian Fund

Frederic Edwin Church Cotopaxi

Frederic Edwin Church Cotopaxi

A major exhibition of revelatory, epic landscapes painted in nineteenth-century America will be shown at Tate Britain from February 2002. American Sublime will reveal how American artists built dramatically on the achievements of European Romantics such as J.M.W. Turner. Their work was shown in nineteenth-century London and admired by Queen Victoria, yet since then it has been scarcely seen outside the United States. American Sublime will bring it to a new audience in Britain.

The exhibition is organised by Andrew Wilton, Keeper and Senior Research Fellow at Tate who has researched and published extensively on Romantic landscape, particularly Turner. His co-curator is Dr Tim Barringer, Assistant Professor in History of Art at Yale University, who has specialised in Victorian art. Essays by Wilton and Barringer are featured in a fully illustrated catalogue (256pp, £29.99).

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Dates

21 February – 19 May 2002

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The Henry Luce Foundation

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The Daily Telegraph

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    American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880

    American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880: Press related to past exhibition.

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    Carter Ratcliff

    When he first exhibited his vast abstract paintings more than 50 years ago, Barnett Newman's audience did not know how to look at them. So, Carter Ratcliff writes, he set out to teach them.

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