Bennett added picnickers to his Niagara Falls landscape to make the vastness of the falls seem more accessible. He placed a group of picnickers on Goat Island in the left foreground and positioned the falls beyond them. The inclusion of picnickers was pleasing and often imitated, as Lt. Col. James Pattison Cockburn did. Twenty years […] read more

Bartlett’s View from Mount Holyoke was accompanied by a text by Nathaniel P. Willis. The view is a topographical landscape, and Willis asserted that this was “Probably the richest view in America, in point of cultivation and fertile beauty.” Unknown to Bartlett and Willis, Thomas had painted the Oxbow from Mount Holyoke in 1836. Exercising […] read more