Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

1/1/1980 - 6/30/1980

Funding Totals

$19,014.00 (approved)
$19,014.00 (awarded)


Plan for the Exhibition "Landscape and Townscape: Nineteenth Century French Prints and Photographs

FAIN: GM-039579-79

Worcester Art Museum (Worcester, MA 01609-3123)
Timothy Riggs (Project Director: January 1980 to present)

To plan an exhibition and catalogue on the history of landscape as an art in 19th century France and on the evolution of human attitudes toward nature and the countryside. Prints of many types will be used to demonstrate how landscape art reflects changes in the rural and urban environment.