LRMA Exhibition - American the Beautiful

The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art presents America the Beautiful: The Monumental Landscapes of Clyde Butcher on display through September 4.

Clyde Butcher's photographs celebrate the beauty of the American landscape with a monumental size and extraordinary clarity that set them apart as exceptional works of art. Butcher continues the tradition of the 19th century Hudson River School painters, composing his works at strikingly beautiful and untarnished locations across the United States.

America the Beautiful includes 56 large scale, black and white photographs of the American landscape, spanning beautiful sites across the United States, from the coast of Maine, to the Badlands, to Hawaii. Butcher's views include some of the same locations shot by the photographer Ansel Adams, demonstrating the unique light and clarity that his artistic vision brings to those scenes. The beauty of Butcher's photographs is further emphasized by the epic size of his works. The exceptional size of his compositions--the largest is 5 by 8.5 feet--allows the viewer to experience the beauty of the site from an almost first hand perspective.