About This Lesson
In this lesson, you’ll consider how a landscape painting made in 1828 by European American artist Thomas Cole reinforces and intervenes in settler colonial ideas about the environment and Native people.
Three additional paintings Native American Sachem, The Landing of Roger Williams in 1636, and View of South Street from Maiden Lane, New York City, are introduced to compare the ways Native American people are presented in European-American art in relation to the environment.
Learn with RISD museum educator MJ Robinson (they/them).
Photograph of MJ Robinson
Photograph of Thomas Cole by Matthew Brady, 1845
As you read through each page of this lesson, you will notice some bold words. Click or tap on these words to see their definitions. All definitions can also be found in the glossary above.
