Comment on 200 years of American painting: Traveling exhibit opens Tuesday at Davenport art museum

200 years of American painting: Traveling exhibit opens Tuesday at Davenport art museum

DAVENPORT — Step off the elevator onto the third floor of the Figge Art Museum IN Davenport, and you’ll be face-to-face with a star of the museum’s newest exhibit spanning 200 years of American art.Titled “The Bash Bish,” the painting is of a small waterfall in the Bash Bish River in western Massachusetts, painted in 1855 by John Frederick Kensett.The subject matter and style — a romanticized landscape of the Hudson River Valley and surrounding area — is regarded as the first distinctively American look.The work is one of about 100 in the traveling exhibit, “For America: 200 Years of Painting from the National Academy of Design,” covering American paintings from 1809 to 2013.The exhibition arrived in Davenport from Sante Fe and will be going to Sacramento.

 

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