Carol Troyen, in The American Art Journal (Vol.Regained XXIII, No. 1, 1991), 40 W. 57th St., 5th fl., New York, N.Y. 10019.
In 1851, the New York-based American Art- Union held one of its most influential exhi- bitions. Three of the show's paintings were so powerful and accomplished that they became much-imitated models of a pastoral form of landscape painting, according to Troyen, an as- sociate curator at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. In a nation beset growing sectional and economic tensions,...