Morning Landscape 11"x14" Print and special attention given to

and special attention given to the transition between the cultivated garden and the grandeur of the larger landscape beyond

Hudson River School artists shared an awe of the magnificence of nature as well as a belief that the untamed American scenery reflected the national character

and mass extinctions decimate entire species

such as Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Cole

and the way land is constantly shaped and reformed to reflect different and competing cultural values

Morning Landscape 11"x14" Print and special attention given toMorning Landscape, Jamaica, 1865 Frederic Edwin Church Brush and oil paint on paperboard, 11 1 2 x 17 15 16 inches. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of Louis P. Church 1917 4 408 a