Approaching Storm Smithsonian American Art Museum

This windy scene of a lone figure struggling in the face of a storm would have held special meaning for nineteenth-century viewers, who believed that their nation's landscape was infused with God's presence.

Art in American Colonies and the United States, c. 1600–1860

The Turtle Gallery

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Approaching Storm Smithsonian American Art Museum

Edward Moran - Storm Clearing - 2016.1.45 - New Britain Museum of

The Approaching Storm

Approaching Storm, 1938, art by James Hollins Patrick – California

File:Georges Michel - Approaching Storm - 55.221 - Indianapolis

Reading the Horizon

Grant Wood, Approaching Storm (1940)