Wilderness, untamed nature everywhere, asserts her claim upon us and the recognition of this claim c

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Wilderness, untamed nature everywhere,
asserts her claim upon us and the recognition of
this claim constitutes an essential part of our
art.Asher Durand
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Thomas Cole, Lake with Dead Trees, 1825
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Thomas Cole, Falls of Kaaterskill, 1825
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Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire, The Savage
State, 1834
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Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire, The Pastoral
or Arcadian State, 1834
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Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire, The
Consummation of Empire, 1835-36
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Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire, Destruction,
1836
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Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire, Desolation,
1836
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Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke,
Northampton, Massachusetts, after a
ThunderstormThe Oxbow, 1836
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Thomas Cole, The Departure, 1837
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Thomas Cole, The Return, 1837
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Thomas Cole, Voyage of Life, 1842
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Asher B. Durand, Kindred Spirits, 1849
Asher B. Durand engraving after John Trumbull
painting
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Asher B. Durand, The Hunter, 1846
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Asher B. Durand, The American Wilderness, 1864
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Asher B. Durand, The Trysting Tree, 1868
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Jasper Cropsey, Ideal Landscape Homage to
Thomas Cole, 1850
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Jasper Cropsey, The Spirit of War and The
Spirit of Peace, 1851
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Jasper Cropsey, Autumnon the Hudson River, 1860
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Frederick Church, Niagara Falls, 1857
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Frederick Church, Heart of the Andes, 1859
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Frederick Church, Cotopaxi, 1862