Please join the Literature, Arts, & Environment Colloquium at the Yale Art Gallery for a special tour of “Yosemite: Exploring the Incomparable Valley” and a conversation with Mark D. Mitchell, Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture.
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History and the 100th anniversary of the creation of America’s National Park Service, Yosemite: Exploring the Incomparable Valley considers one of the country’s most celebrated natural landmarks through the fields of both art and science. Taking as its starting point Albert Bierstadt’s large-scale Yosemite Valley, Glacier Point Trail (ca. 1873), the exhibition shows how Americans found inspiration in the western landscape and also sought to understand its marvels—through paintings, prints, and photographs as well as the botanical and geological specimens that early scientists brought back from their expeditions.
http://english.yale.edu/event/literature-arts-environment-colloquium-yos…