This exhibition focuses on George Cooke’s “Tallulah Falls,” a pivotal example of early southern U.S. painting, by considering the notion of natural wonder and the dynamics of witnessing the natural world.
The exhibition places Cooke’s and Richards’ landscapes alongside contemporary photographs of Tallulah Gorge by Caitlin Peterson, the exhibition illuminates the contradictions involved in marking off natural wonders and the paradoxes of witnessing nature. Through these visual conversations, 19th-century southern art is seen in new contexts, including in relation to Indigenous and environmental histories of the region.
This exhibition focuses on George Cooke’s “Tallulah Falls,” a pivotal example of early southern U.S. painting, by considering the notion of natural wonder and the dynamics of witnessing the natural world.
The exhibition places Cooke’s and Richards’ landscapes alongside contemporary photographs of Tallulah Gorge by Caitlin Peterson, the exhibition illuminates the contradictions involved in marking off natural wonders and the paradoxes of witnessing nature. Through these visual conversations, 19th-century southern art is seen in new contexts, including in relation to Indigenous and environmental histories of the region.
