Inspired by the tranquil view waiting to be transferred tocanvas in Constable's English countryside, a new curiositydisturbed the painter's concentration. How did America, escaping her burdened beginnings, come to adapt Europe'sartistic superiority to her own first great school oflandscape painting?Landscape Painting Comes to America, written by a painter, details the development of landscape painting fromblank canvas to exhibition, documenting its long struggleto become a genre unto itself while relating that developmentto its historic migration across an ocean. | Landscape Painting Comes to America by Katherine L. Lewis, Paperback | Indigo Chapters