How this vast landscape uses tiny brushstrokes to create a unified view of nature

“The artist daringly creates an enormous void, and what he does so brilliantly is to fill the void with this extraordinary light.”

"The artist daringly creates an enormous void, and what he does so brilliantly is to fill the void with this extraordinary light."

Curator Betsy Kornhauser on Sanford Robinson Gifford's painting "A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove)."

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Throughout 2013, The Met invited curators from across the Museum to each talk about one artwork that changed the way they see the world. Each episode is interpreted by a Museum photographer.

Photography by Peter Zeray

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