Join William Mitchell at From Fjord to Forest, which presents landscapes by nineteenth century Swiss, German and Norwegian painters with an emphasis on each country’s respective national characteristics such as fjords and lakes, forests and woodland as well as glaciers and valleys. The exhibition includes plein air oil studies as well as more formal studio paintings and several will be sold to benefit the Asbjorn Lunde Foundation in New York.
Asbjorn Lunde was a leading collector within these schools of landscape art and amassed one of the largest groups of paintings by the Swiss artists, Alexandre Calame and Johann Gottfried Steffan. Lunde was equally a pioneer buyer of the mystical Norwegian scenes by Peder Balke. With a focus on trees and wilderness, From Fjord to Forest examines the lingering impact of the Romantic movement in European painting and, moreover, our heightened awareness of the continent’s shifting natural profile through climate change.