Landscapes play a concerning role in American art and came to predominate American art in the 1830's, when artists began to equate the country's unspoiled wilderness with the new nation's seemingly limitless potential.

As industrial development pushed westward, landscape artists were documenting the American wilderness just as it was wear away

Gradually this style or type of landscape gave way to more maturity, interpretive views. These painters created works of tremendous scale in attempting to capture the epic scope of the landscapes that inspired them

And in a final twist in the latter half of the 20th century creation tone and emulsion stuff  landscape history expanded in various directions.