It is 100 years of American history as seen through the eyes of artists, starting in the 1830’s.
The Tampa Museum of Art is presenting “American Spirit: Paintings and Sculpture from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art,” on display through September 6, 2015.
“These are some of the most universally well-known American artists,” said museum Executive Director Michael Tomor.
Fifty paintings and eight sculpture pieces round out a show that documents the evolution of American Art.
There’s the wonder of the western frontier, captured in Thomas Hill’s oil painting “View of Yosemite Valley,” painted in 1893.
“There’s a real spirituality about these types of beautiful panoramic landscapes,” said Tomor.
There are also depictions of the lawlessness in “The Wild West,” especially strong in Frederic Remington’s “Fight Over a Waterhole,” an oil on canvas piece from 1897.
Two men are engaged in a gunfight backed up to an unfortified watering hole.
There are multiple figures
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