Charles Lanman (1819-1895), born and based in Michigan, was an artist and travel writer in what was then the American West. His paintings are highly romanticized landscapes – I post three of them here, where you can see his view of nature as vast, dramatic, and noble. When he includes human traces in his work, man is small and isolated, almost overwhelmed by the wilderness....His writings have a similar feel. He is nostalgic, sometimes sentimen...
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