Staff Picks - Tommy R.

Staff Picks : Tommy R.

Tommy R. is a fine fellow
who loves the great outdoors,
understands that romantic notions of wildnerness
motivated the establishment
of our national parks,
and connects them to the above painting
thanks to the label posted beside it.

And so he begins his discussion with:

"I chose this painting
because if you read the text beside it...."

But what about the painting, itself, Tommy ?

How do you feel as you look at it?

How does it compare with the other 19th C.
American landscapes in that gallery?

Or with the neo-romantics like Thomas Kinkade ?

It's not one of the conceptual pieces in the Modern Wing
that have no value at all
without their explanatory text.

(I write some more about it here )