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November 2026 issue · Community news

Explore America’s Beauty Through Landscape Painting

The Chatham Historical Society invites the community to its free fall program, “From Sea to Shining Sea: A Celebration of American Landscape Painting,” on Sunday, November 15 at 3 p.m. in the Library of the Chathams’ Lundt Room.

Albert Bierstadt’s Wind River, Wyoming (1870). The November 15 program will explore American landscape painting, including works by Bierstadt.
Albert Bierstadt’s Wind River, Wyoming (1870). The November 15 program will explore American landscape painting, including works by Bierstadt. Courtesy Photo

Art historian Mallory Mortillaro will take audiences across the country through paintings by Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt and others. The lecture explores how American landscape painting helped establish a national identity while examining the relationship between nature and humanity.

Refreshments will be served.

For more than 100 years, the Chatham Historical Society has preserved and shared Chatham Borough’s history through programs, publications and community events. For information about upcoming programs, visit Chathamnjhistoricalsociety.com.

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