The landscape gallery, “Romance with Land and Sea,” focuses on the fundamental connection between humanity and nature which is at the very core of the land's appeal as an artistic subject. This connection has been shaped by the changing circumstances of civilization. The gallery includes early 19th century paintings by American artists Jasper Cropsey and Norton Bush who equated the country’s unspoiled wilderness with the nation’s seemingly limitless potential; the experiments of the evocative effects of light and atmosphere by the American Impressionist John Ottis Adams; and the 20th century works of Georgia O’Keeffe, Edward Hopper, and Milton Avery, whose landscapes were depicted through each artist's personal emotional response to their world.
THE CLOSING OF AN AUTUMN DAY
Oil on canvas, 1901
JOHN OTTIS ADAMS, American (1851-1927)
Collection of the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science
Gift of the Art League
1966.136
MOUNTAINS TO THE NORTH – AUTUMN, LAKE GEORGE, NEW YORK
Oil on canvas, 1922
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE, American (1887-1986)
Collection of the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science
Gift of Mr. Phil Lowenthal, Evansville, Indiana
1966.300
PAMET RIVER ROAD
Watercolor, 1934
EDWARD HOPPER (American 1882-1967)
Collection of the Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science
Gift of Mr. William A. Gumberts and Mrs. Maron Simon
In honor of their father, Mr. Ferd Gumberts
1951.72
