New York governor De Witt Clinton opened ceremonies at the American Academy of Fine Arts by proclaiming: "Can there be a country in the world better calculated than ours to exercise and exalt the imaginationto call into activity the creative powers of the mind. and to afford just views of the beautiful. wonderful. and sublime American wilderness and American cultural landscape." Such words did not fall on deaf ears. Samuel B. Morse was already organizing the National Academy of Arts. and within a year a young immigrant. Thomas Cole (180148). from Liverpool. England would begin a cultural revolution that would establish the agenda of the nation for the next hundred years.
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