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# The History of American Landscape Painting Is Not Pretty
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/history-of-american-landscape-painting-is-not-pretty/
- Published: 2022-11-07T20:24:03.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:21:06.000Z
- Description: The country's most famous landscape painters pushed the idea of Manifest Destiny. Is there a better way to inspire people with landscape painting today?
- Author: Steven Weinberg
- Tags: Comics, Painting, Thomas Cole, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 09:22 (2021, 2022, part 2)

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