Peabody-Essex Museum - Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment

Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 - Wendy and I went to an Evening Opening occasion at the Peabody-Essex Museum (Salem, Mass.) to get a "first look" at their upcoming exhibition: Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment:

Spoiler Alert: I Highly Recommend it!! and it closes May 5, 2019

There are pieces from at least 12 other museums, including the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), R.W. Norton Art Gallery (Shreveport, LA), Gilcrease Museum (Tulsa, OK), Philadelphia Museum of Art, New-York Historical Society Museum, and Princeton University Art Museum, which co-sponsored the exhibition. I took pictures of 20 pieces! Highlights include:

Thomas Cole - "A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch)", 1839 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)


Thomas Cole - "A Snow Squall", 1825 (R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, LA)


Thomas Moran - "Lower Falls, Yellowstone Park", 1893 (Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK)


Frederic Edwin Church - "Cayambe", 1858 (New-York Historical Society, New York, NY)


Albert Bierstadt - "Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite", about 1871-73 (North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC)


Ansel Adams - "Monolith, the Face of Half Dome", 1927, printed 1960:


There is an N.C. Wyeth painting, and an Andrew Wyeth painting, both from Private Collections, plus many other pieces. As I said: I Highly Recommend it!! and it closes May 5, 2019.