Since its emergence as a major field in the 19 thĬentury, American landscape painting has been assumed to be largely the domain of white artists. Famous for depicting the fictional town of Hale in the 1999 film Runaway Bride, it is just as quaint in reality as it is on screen. The entire downtown area (Berlin Commercial District) is on the National Register of. But in “American Landscapes,” a new exhibit opening today at the David C. Overlooking the Chesapeake Bay, Annapolis is a prime spot to get out on the water. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, visitors are presented with a wider perspective that centers the work of African American artists in the genre.

“A goal (of the exhibition) is to show that African American artists created landscape works and participated in that conversation the same as white artists.” “To our knowledge, there was never an exhibition of landscapes by African American artists,” said Dorit Yaron, deputy director of the Driskell Center. Hinton spent 30 years on Alabamas death row after being wrongly convicted of two unsolved murders in 1985. The exhibition of 73 works spans from 1850 to 2020 roughly two-thirds are by Black artists, while most of the rest are by white artists, to compare and contrast. With the assistance of the Equal Justice Initiative. Presented in chronological order, the exhibition begins with works produced and influenced by Hudson River School artists-peaceful, pastoral scenes of nature.

Later works incorporate new themes some are politically resonant, depicting the relationship enslaved people had to the land, while more modern pieces lean toward the abstract or focus on smaller-scale scenes, like the details of one tree instead of a forest. Yaron hopes that visitors will learn about an often-neglected aspect of African American art history. “There was always the expectation from African American artists to create art that deals with identity, or political and social issues, which was very common for African Americans to do during the civil rights movement, but it doesn’t mean that was the only thing that they did,” she said. Meet the delightful Black-eyed Susan, the state flower of Maryland. See the gallery below to read more about a few of the works on display. Color in this pretty flower and write a story about how it got its name. Illustrated art print by Emily Hein- Ships flat in protective sleeve- Printed with archival ink.

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