Founding Prof at Yale’s School of Fine Arts, he pioneered painting heavy industry, produced a superb series of European landscapes, and more.
Wright
Some of the most innovative narrative paintings, they also show the bigger picture of changing ideas and values.
In little more than a century, narrative painting has been transformed from the moribund and shunned, to the innovative and exciting.
From the early years of landscape painting as a genre in its own right, artists have used it to depict the awe-inspiring but fascinating horrors of the sublime.
