Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art at Yale University.

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View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm – The Oxbow (1836), Thomas Cole. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Return to the source – the invention of American landscape painting

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