Recent Acquisitions

slow art story by Nate DiMeo

Listen to the Story: 12 minutes

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Description:

This episode is best experienced in gallery 760 in The American Wing. If you can’t visit the Museum in person, you might want to take a look at Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851), Albert Bierstadt’s The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak (1868), and Jules Tavernier’s Dance in a Subterranean Longhouse at Clearlake, California (1878).

Via http://thememorypalace.us/2016/10/the-met-residency-episode-1-recent-acquition/

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
Gallery 760: History, Landscape, and National Identity, 1850–75

"Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California"

by Jules Tavernier

"The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak"

by Albert Bierstadt