Gallery Talk | Colonial Mythmaking: Patronage, Propaganda, and the Settler Gaze of the Hudson River School

The sweeping landscape paintings of the Hudson River School artists are part of a complex legacy that helped define how Americans see nature and continues to shape how we view our place within it. Photographer, philosopher, and theologian steve núñez and Erin Monroe, Krieble Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, discuss the impact of artists and patrons on the idea of Manifest Destiny and consider the stories both told and erased by these powerful artworks. Free with admission, registration encouraged.

Presented as part of The Wadsworth’s American Art Week in conjunction with Long Weekend Hartford.

Image: Thomas Cole (American, 1801–1848), View in the White Mountains, 1827. Oil on canvas. Bequest of Daniel Wadsworth, 1848.17