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      Past Exhibition

      Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment

      On View February 2 to May 5, 2019

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      10 am–5 pm

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      Closed

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      10 am–5 pm

      Friday

      10 am–5 pm

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      10 am–5 pm

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      Thursday

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      Sunday

      10 am–5 pm

      Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment is the first exhibition to trace environmental awareness in American art over the last three centuries.

      More than 100 works, including iconic masterpieces as well as rare works by such artists as John James Audubon, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, Valerie Hegarty, Winslow Homer, Georgia O’Keeffe and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish-Kootenai) compel us to reconsider the relationships between art, the environment and ourselves.

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      Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment
      has been organized by the Princeton University Art Museum. Leadership support has been provided by Shelly and Tony Malkin; Annette Merle-Smith; Henry Luce Foundation; and the National Endowment for the Arts. Carolyn and Peter S. Lynch and The Lynch Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Jennifer and Andrew Borggaard and Kate and Ford O'Neil provided generous support. We also recognize the generosity of the East India Marine Associates of the Peabody Essex Museum.

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      TOP IMAGE: Sanford Robinson Gifford, American, 1823–1880, Hunter Mountain, Twilight (detail), 1866. Oil on canvas. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.57. Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago / Art Resource, NY.
      Natures Nation curator video
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      Curator Interview

      Learn more about the exhibition from Austen Barron Bailly, PEM's George Putnam Curator of American Art.

      Natures Nation book

      Exhibition catalogue

      This multidisciplinary book offers the first broad ecocritical review of American art and examines the environmental contexts of artistic practice from the colonial period to the present day.

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