Jonathan Canning 8/15
Director of Curatorial Affairs and Programming at The Hyde Collection

The Pre-Raphaelites and Truth in Art

For the Pre-Raphaelites the art of the Hudson River School was “fake news.” It failed to represent nature faithfully, realistically, or scientifically. Inspired by the English art critic John Ruskin, a troupe of young American radicals sought to revolutionize art a century after Independence.