Sunset across the Hudson Valley, New York by Frederic Edwin Church, 1870 spitgate One of the earliest American

One of the earliest American maps focusing specifically on the Middle East oil industry

It is not just a representation of the world as it was in 1947

Painted at a time when the public was captivated by exploration and the power of the natural world

and the long escarpments edging the Colorado Plateau are rendered with enough relief to explain the line’s curves and gradients

In the years after World War I

Sunset across the Hudson Valley, New York by Frederic Edwin Church, 1870 spitgate One of the earliest AmericanSunset across the Hudson Valley, New York (1870) by Frederic Edwin Church captures the hushed drama of evening as the sun slips behind distant mountains and pours amber light across the river valley. A leading figure of the Hudson River School, Church was celebrated for panoramic views that fused scientific observation with a sense of the sublime. In this canvas, he conjures a richly atmospheric scene: the low sun ignites the sky in orange and gold,