East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography
March 12 – July 16, 2017
West Building, Ground Floor, Inner Tier Galleries
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Henry Peter Bosse,
This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.
The first exhibition to focus exclusively on photographs made in the eastern half of the United States during the 19th century, East of the Mississippi showcases some 175 works—from daguerreotypes and stereographs to albumen prints and cyanotypes—as well as several photographers whose efforts have often gone unheralded. Celebrating natural wonders such as Niagara Falls and the White Mountains, as well as capturing a cultural landscape fundamentally altered by industrialization, the Civil War, and tourism, these photographs not only helped shape America’s national identity but also played a role in the emergence of environmentalism.
Organization: The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in association with the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Sponsors: The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Trellis Fund.
Additional funding is kindly provided by Kate and Wes Mitchell.
Attendance: 62,846
Catalog: East of the Mississippi Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography. By Diane Waggoner, et al. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2017.
Other venues: New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, October 5, 2017–January 7, 2018
- The Geography of Culture: Photographic Narratives in the Landscape of the American East
- Video, Released: July 4, 2017, (30:24 minutes)
- John Moran and Art Photography in America: 1855–1875
- Audio, Released: May 23, 2017, (56:08 minutes)
- East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography
- Video, Released: April 18, 2017, (46:20 minutes)
- East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography
- Audio, Released: March 14, 2017, (46:20 minutes)
- Press Event: The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries & East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography
- Audio, Released: March 7, 2017, (28:19 minutes)