From the early investment in landscape as the mythological source of America’s manifest destiny, to the closing of the frontier and the rise of a gilded empire, to the disaffection caused by rapid economic, social and political change: the development of the United States finds visual voice in the American art of the McGlothlin Collection. This talk considers the content and context of the McGlothlin collection as a lens on the evolution of America during the formative decades of 1830 to 1930.
