In many accounts of artistic practice, miniature-scaled works are assigned subsidiary roles, valued as mere precursors to later, larger, and more significant compositions. Subverting familiar expectations in the history of the landscape genre, the more than 100 paintings, drawings, and photographs included in This Drop of Earth: American Landscape Miniatures, 1840-1890 demonstrate the multifaceted ways small pictures were big business in nineteenth-century America, related to but independent from their larger siblings.
Opening Reception
Thursday, June 20th
5.30 – 7.30 pm
Peirce Prince Gallery
Free
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