Heidi Applegate Lecture Series: Understanding American Art

​Lecture three of our two year study of American art.

Lecture will be at the Chevy Chase Club

NGA's Heidi Applegate Lecture

The Hudson River School

A survey of works by the foremost landscape painters of the first half of the nineteenth century; Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand, and Frederick Edwin Church. We will examine the ways in which each of these artists expressed a sense of national identity through landscape painting.