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Landscape Unmoored: Painting Alongshore in Modern America

Oklahoma City Museum of Art James C. Meade Friends’ Lecture presented virtually on January 12, 2022. “Landscape Unmoored: Painting Alongshore in Modern America” By Kimia Shahi, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Southern California Saltwater shorelines are dynamic meeting points between ocean and land, sites of encounter, mobility, and ecological interconnection. To visitors and inhabitants alike, they can be particularly prismatic places, reflecting and refracting different perspectives on the natural world and our relationships to it. This talk explores the significance of shorelines in the work of 19th- through 21st-century painters such as William Trost Richards, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Winslow Homer, George Bellows, Rockwell Kent, Georgia O’Keeffe, Ruben Tam, and Kay Walkingstick. Together, these artists’ diverse approaches to picturing rocky coasts, water and waves, urban harbors, and tourist destinations attest to the shore’s enduring status as a source of artistic inspiration and innovation. By unmooring our vantage points from the fixed boundaries of terra firma, these artworks challenge us to think more expansively about the nature of the American landscape. They offer new insights into how the thresholds of the sea have shaped notions of place, identity, history, and the environment in the work of some of our most powerful visual thinkers.