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Title:	In Dialogue: On Wonder and Witnessing at Tallulah Falls
Date:	9/7/2024 - 1/12/2025
Address:	Georgia Museum of Art, 90 Carlton Street, Athens, GA 30602
Location:	Athens, GA
Hours:	Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday: 10am - 5pm; Thursday: 10am - 9pm & Sunday: 1pm 5pm
Cost/Cover:	free, donations accepted
Web Page:	https://georgiamuseum.org/exhibit/in-dialogue-on-wonder-and- ...
Contact Info:	706.542.4662

Details:

This exhibition focuses on George Cooke’s “Tallulah Falls,” a pivotal example of early southern U.S. painting, by considering the notion of natural wonder and the dynamics of witnessing the natural world. Nineteenth-century tourist destinations in North America, such as the cascades at Tallulah Falls in northeast Georgia and Niagara Falls in northwest New York, stood as emblems of the nation’s unblemished and powerful wilderness. American writers and painters like Cooke, Thomas Addison Richards and Henry R. Jackson believed that their visions of American nature were a patriotic project. They sought to associate the U.S. landscape with a sublime present and future in contrast to the picturesque past of the European Old World. In doing so, these early American painters sought to lay claim to the landscape for the white settlers and forcibly erase the histories of the Indigenous nations who stewarded the lands and waters.