Touring Eden: Landscapes and the Shaping of American Identity

April 21, 2026

Every day except Monday

Full exhibit dates: Friday, January 30, 2026 to Sunday, May 31, 2026

Touring Eden explores how American artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries shaped national identity through landscape paintings of iconic tourist destinations. As a burgeoning tourist industry grew, artists traveled widely, shaping a corpus of iconic views that helped define what it meant to be American.

From the marshes of Florida to the pastoral hills of New England, from the dramatic peaks of the American West to the scenic landscapes of Italy, the paintings in this exhibition reflect an evolving relationship between people and place. In a time of expansion, conflict, and industrialization, they reveal how a shared visual experience of landscape became central to the American imagination and the broader project of nationhood.

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