Art Museum
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Closed Sunday & Monday
Admission: Free
Centennial Complex
2111 East Willett Drive
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-6622
Email: uwartmus@uwyo.edu
From the Scottish Sublime to the American West: Selected Works from the University of Wyoming explores the relationship between the romantic sublime landscapes of the British artists of the 18th and 19th centuries and the early American landscape tradition of the 19th century.
British artists examined the landscape through color and light, creating images in which untamed nature becomes an aesthetic experience, similar to the Romanticism movement occurring in literature and the arts. The American artists drew upon these grand romantic images, first with the plays of light and color of the Hudson River School artists, and later the magnificent landscapes of the American West that embodied the notion of Manifest Destiny.
Images:
Left: Albert Bierstadt (German/American, 1830-1902), In the Tetons, not dated, oil on canvas, 20-1/2 x 28-1/4 inches, gift of the Coe Foundation, University of Wyoming Art Museum Collection, 1974.78
Top right: Samuel Coleman (American, 1887-1932), Durham, England, not dated, etching, 4-7/16 x 7-3/4 inches, Anna Hoyt Mavor Collection, University of Wyoming Art Museum Collection, 1973.171
Bottom right: Richard Wilson (English, 1714-1782), Laythorpe Bridge and Postern, not dated, oil on canvas, 27 x 36 inches, gift of Mrs. Seabury Mars, University of Wyoming Art Museum Collection, 1968.15
Art Museum
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Closed Sunday & Monday
Admission: Free
Centennial Complex
2111 East Willett Drive
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-6622
Email: uwartmus@uwyo.edu