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Jun 18, 2006 · Wadsworth, the scion of a wealthy mercantile family, was a devoted traveler and aesthete, collecting art and books as well as sketching and writing about the landscape during his endless...
Wadsworth was greatly inspired by the industrial landscape found in West Yorkshire, an area he knew from his childhood. Works such as Yorkshire Village use an abstract, reductive vocabulary based on faceted geometric forms that recalls early Cubist landscapes by Picasso and Braque.
Wadsworth’s population boomed and nearly arrived immigrants from Italy, Hungary, Ireland and eastern Europe moved to town to take the jobs. Wadsworth became a culturally diverse melting pot. This influx of people resulted in the downtown area to grow and prosper.
Wadsworth would have seen the landscape of the Black Country from the train as he travelled from London to Liverpool where he was engaged in painting dazzle camouflage on ships. The man-made landscape created by the slag heaps from coal and steel production, dotted with winding wheels, smoking furnaces and freight trains, held a particular ...
Jun 15, 2010 · Born in Hiram, Maine, Wadsworth studied civil engineering at the Gardiner Lyceum. In 1825, he obtained a job in Boston as a landscape surveyor where he established a reputation through his work on Washington Square in Lowell and Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, both in 1831.
National Historic Site (NHS) and National Historical Park (NHP) are designations for officially recognized areas of nationally historic significance in the United States. They are usually owned and managed by the federal government.
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From natural wonders to the open road, the landscape has long been a muse in American art. The (Un)Settled podcast explores the rich, complicated, and evolving topic of the landscape in American art, from its origins in nineteenth-century painting into contemporary art.
