Review: Prophet with Honor: The Career of Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852 by George B. Tatum, Elisabeth Blair MacDougall

1991 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-448
Author(s):  
Patrick Snadon
Keyword(s):  
Andrew Jackson ◽  
Andrew Jackson Downing

Andrew Jackson Downing

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 531-540
Author(s):  
Robert C Twombly
Keyword(s):  
Andrew Jackson ◽  
Andrew Jackson Downing

scholarly journals “‘The Mighty Meaning of the Scene’” Feminine Landscapes and the Future of America in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Kathleen Healey
Keyword(s):  
Hudson River ◽  
Landscape Painting ◽  
Margaret Fuller ◽  
Landscape Aesthetics ◽  
Andrew Jackson ◽  
The West ◽  
Hudson River School ◽  
The Future ◽  
Andrew Jackson Downing ◽  
The Ideal

Like many of her contemporaries, Margaret Fuller had great hopes for the West. The Western lands, open for America’s future, held the promise of what America could become. In Summer on the Lakes, Fuller sketches what she hopes America will become. Using the landscape aesthetics of her age, such as the work of Andrew Jackson Downing and the Hudson River School of landscape painting, Fuller describes the ideal landscape as one that is more feminine and nurturing, one in which humankind lives in harmony with nature. Fuller’s landscape descriptions both point to a better future for America and critique the values of her contemporaries. Fuller contrasts America’s more male vision of conquest of the land with her feminine ideal of harmony with nature—a cultivated garden—to show what America’s future should be, as it builds westward.

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