Landscapes in New Britain Museum of American Art

 I never know what will grab me when I visit a museum I have visited many times before.

On this visit, I lingered over the 19th century landscapes by American artists.  And, I admired the way the curator placed NBMAA's terrific collection of benches, like this bear.

Over several years in the 1870s, Albert Bierstadt painted Seal Rock, a romantic scene of seals cavorting on  islands off the Californian coast.

Thomas Moran's 1864 painting, The Wilds of Lake Superior, affords numerous places for the eye to roam.  A gnarled tree.  Mountains and rocks.  A mysterious dark cloud.  And, I admired the way Moran captured the details of water cascading from a waterfall.