New Mexico Museum of Art Presents Exhibition
“For America. Pictures of the National Academy of Design ".
The exposition includes more than a hundred canvases illustrating various stages in the history of the development of American painting.
A splendid selection of works by major American artists is presented in five exhibition sections dedicated to various historical themes: the origins of the Academy and the accompanying growth of the Hudson River School and American genre painting; the influence of contemporary European art and art education on the development of American painting; the nascent role of the Academy in the early twentieth century as the custodian of artistic traditions in the United States; how realism in its various incarnations remained a viable alternative to American abstraction; and the ways in which paintings by living National Academy members address contemporary issues, harking back to America's fabled past.
Based on site materials
Museum of Art New Mexico, USA.