American 20th-21st Century Landscape Painting
Introduction
This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "American 20th-21st Century Landscape Painting." Articles and essays specific to this topic published in TFAO's Resource Library are listed at the beginning of the section. Clicking on titles takes readers directly to these articles and essays. The date at the end of each title is the Resource Library publication date.
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"A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty." - Fernando Botero
207 Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:
2011-2016 26
2006-2010 31
2004-2005 23
2002-2003 35
1997-2001 92
(above: Granville Richard Seymor Redmond, A Field of California Poppies, 1911, oil on canvas, 26 x 36 inches, Private Collection, Northern California (by family descent to present owner), Bonhams. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
From other websites:
Architectural and Urban Landscape Painting
Natural Scene Landscape Painting
Miscellaneous Landscape Painting
(above, John Cogan, Portrait
of Red Arch Mountain, 2019, acrylic. photo courtesy of National Park
Service. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Online videos:
The National Academy Museum presents a video archive page contains talks by academicians -- including landscape artist Wolf Kahn -- about their work. Accessed May 2015.
The WGBH/Boston
Forum Network is an audio and video streaming web site dedicated to
curating and serving live and on-demand lectures, including a number of
videos on Art and Architecture. Partners include a number of museums, colleges,
universities and other cultural organizations. See listings of related videos
in this catalogue indexed by partner name. Wheaton
College partnered with the WGBH Forum Network for Six Good Reasons
Not To Paint a Landscape, (51 minutes) with Wolf Kahn, landscape artist.
[September 19, 2002] Accessed May, 2015.
An
Interview with Wolf Kahn, Feb 17, 2011, from Burning Oak Studios. Accessed
August, 2015.
DVD/VHS videos:
Hudson River Journeys. This video is a 2004 American Public Television exploration of "America's first river," through the eyes of artist Len Tantillo and folk singer Pete Seeger. History comes alive through Tantillo's detailed paintings, and those of 19th-century Hudson River School painters who helped shape the mythos of the American landscape. Hudson River Journeys is an intimate view into the mystique of the river. The program presents a breathtaking look at the Hudson today, celebrating its natural splendor through beautiful scenic vistas captured during each of the four seasons. The documentary is a passionate look at the dedicated people who have made the Hudson River what it is today, and those who are striving to preserve it for the future. (text courtesy of American Public Television)
Land and Landscape: Views of America's History and Culture
Follows the history of photography and landscape
painting in America. Looks at its 
beginnings in the 19th
century and compares the similarities and differences in modern techniques.
Produced by the National Museum of American Art. Guide, workbook, 27-minute
video, 15 small prints. Description source: Amon
Carter Museum Teacher Resource Center.
Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church is a 29 minute 1989 National Gallery of Art video directed
by Joseph J. Reis and narrated by Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Curator of American
Art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. From the 1850s to the
1870s, Frederic Edwin Church was the leading landscape painter in America.
This video traces Church's career from his early studies in the Catskills
and the Hudson River Valley with the eminent landscape painter Thomas Cole.
The program continues through Church's maturity when his grand, all-encompassing
paintings of the great natural wonders of the Americas made him one of the
nation's most celebrated landscape painters of the 19th century. The program
includes live footage of the Catskills and of Church's "final work
of art," Olana, his house 
overlooking the
Hudson River. Paintings shown include New England Scenery (1851),
Niagara (1857), Heart of the Andes (1859), Icebergs (1861),
Twilight in the Wilderness (1860), Cotopaxi (1862), Parthenon
(1871), and Morning in the Tropics (1877). This program is also
available in the DVD collection: American Art, 17851926: Seven Artist
Profiles.This DVD is lent free of charge through the National Gallery
of Art's Division of Education (go to NGA
Loan Materials)
Richard Mayhew: Spiritual Landscapes is a 28 minute L&S video created and produced by Linda Freeman and witten and directed by David Irving. Richard Mayhew paints landscapes. These images have taken root within the the artist's inner spirit and are expressed through oil paint on canvas and watercolor on paper. The landscapes never depict a specific place, but capture a poetic feeling about the land. Are they abstracts? Are they impressions? Are they expressions? Are they landscapes? Only you the viewer, in concert with the artist, can say for sure. ISBN 1-882660-15-3
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(above: Thomas Moran, Grand
Canyon with Rainbow. 1912. Oil on canvas. de Young Art Museum. Gift
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Gill through the Patrons of Art and Music. 1981.89.
License: Scuttlebutte,
CC BY-SA 4.0 Scuttlebutte, CC BY-SA 4.0.
via Wikimedia Commons*)
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