There’s a gentle hand in Emanuel Matthews’ landscapes, exhibiting here and in other pieces a fondness for a more bucolic, genteel and barely industrialized America. Although painted in the 20th century, this work seems set in the early 19th century, an era when we still thought ourselves separated from the rest of the world’s troubles by our Atlantic and Pacific “moats.” Wouldn’t a little time travel be just what the doctor ordered about now?
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