The Florida landscape has provided aesthetic inspiration to arti sts for centuries. Titian Ramsay Peale and John James Audubon came in searc h of native flora and fauna, followed by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Martin John son Heade, George Inness, Winslow Homer, and Henry Ossawa Tanner, who were lured by its natural beauty and warm climate. This presentation offers a su ccinct and engaging history of Florida’s landscape painters.
K eri Watson is an associate professor of art history at the University of Ce ntral Florida and co-executive editor for Panorama: Journal of the Ass ociation of Historians of American Art. She is the author of This is A merica: Re-Viewing the Art of the United States (2023) and editor of t he Routledge Companion to Art and Disability (2022).
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