IN-PERSON PROGRAM

Nationalism and Democracy in Thomas Cole's A Wild Scene

Baltimore Museum of Art

Please join the BMA's Senior Curator of American Art, Virginia M. G. Anderson, for an in-gallery talk to discuss the origin story of Thomas Cole's sweeping and cinematic painting, A Wild Scene (1832), which was created for the prominent Baltimore collector Robert Gilmor, Jr. We will examine its relationship to Cole's signature 5-painting series, The Course of Empire, consider the links between images of the American landscape and 19th century nationalism, and explore how Cole embedded the era's conceptions of democracy into this painting's composition. 

Members-only, registration required (limited to 15 people). Free.