Thomas Doughty: The Quiet Pioneer of American Landscape Painting

Long before the grand, theatrical canvases of the Hudson River School took center stage, Thomas Doughty (1793–1856) was quietly shaping the very idea of what American landscape painting could be. If you imagine the American wilderness as a stage, Doughty was the artist who gently raised the curtain. His paintings radiate a kind of soft-spoken […]