FILE: 20_Lackawanna Valley_Innis.jpg

TITLE: PAINTING - Lackawanna Valley - 19TH CENTURY

DESCRIPTION: INNIS. HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL (Cole's successors). Famous painting of coal country of PA. SOCIAL COMMENTARY about intrusion of civilization and the end of wilderness. Surrogate looker = child seeing for the viewer. Leo Marx, critic, wrote that the train was like the snake in the garden, the landscape being "Edenic."