Stephen Long and a poorly equipped expedition of twenty-three soldiers, amateur scientists, and landscape painters, set out from Engineer Cantonment to circumnavigate the unknown Central Great Plains during the height of summer, and rescue something from the debacle. After weathering en...
appreciate landscape paintings C. get to know other painters___ D. make up his mind to be a painter 4. D Among my peers, the most common reasons to sit in front are: poor vision, poor hearing, and harder to fall asleep (my main reason). That’s about it. I’ve sat in...
Ridge upon ridge of forest straddles the border between North Carolina and Tennessee in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Led by your Adventure Guide, explore America’s most visited national park, world renowned for its diversity of plant and animal life, the beauty of its ancient mountains, ...
grand châteaux, and picturesque villages that feel like stepping into a storybook. Many destinations offer a glimpse into France’s rich heritage, from medieval towns to artistic enclaves that inspired legendary painters. Plus, with France’s excellent train system and well-connected roads, it’s...
appreciate landscape paintings C. get to know other painters___ D. make up his mind to be a painter 4. D Among my peers, the most common reasons to sit in front are: poor vision, poor hearing, and harder to fall asleep (my main reason). That’s about it. I’ve sat ...
The Hudson River School painters believed art to be an agent of moral and spiritual transformation. In large-scale canvases of dramatic vistas with atmospheric lighting, they sought to capture a sense of the divine, envisioning the pristine American landscape as a new Garden of Eden. Their work...
English landscape painters Turner and Constable, French impressionists such as Degas and Renoir, Japanese artists Sesshu and Hishikawa Moronobu, American abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, twentieth-century European giants such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, and modern ...
all human ambition; an awesome power that makes us feel at once vulnerable and alive. But Aeling is both philosopher and naturalist. Like early American landscape painters, he revels in the intimate details of the natural world as a way of truly appreciating the awesome vastness of the whole...
Our tailor-made itineraries* provide the right amount of adventure, discovery and education amid the scenic landscape that inspired generations of painters, poets, writers and photographers. Begin your journey through the Catskills’ past with one of our four predefined itineraries that take you to ...
Among them are Renaissance artists Raphael and Michelangelo, northern European artists such as Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt van Rijn, English landscape painters Turner and Constable, French impressionists such as Degas and Renoir, Japanese artists Sesshu and Hishikawa Moronobu, American abstract ...