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Landscape painting has always had a unique place in the history of American Art. Earlier settlers and colonists especially celebrated the American landscape \u2013 one that has been shaped by the stewardship of  Native peoples through the ages. For many Europeans, however, civilization, cities, and the memory of Greece and Rome were key ways of understanding the world, and the presence of Native people in the American landscape was largely dismissed. The American landscape paintings in the museum\u2019s collection capture the full breadth of the country\u2019s history and relationship to land from the settler\u2019s point of view, ranging from the earliest Hudson Valley painters, to the works of Americans abroad and the urban landscape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since long before colonists arrived, Native people have continued to live in communion with these same lands despite their violent displacement through the forces of colonization. This gallery includes contemporaneous works of Native art that reflect their connection to the natural world and also demonstrate how Native artists transformed what they gained through global trade into their aesthetic systems. <\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"american-land","image":{"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/William-Sartain-The-Aqueduct-scaled.jpg","id":14405,"extension":"jpg","width":2560,"height":2069,"filesize":382032,"sizes":{"medium":{"width":700,"height":566,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":36970,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/William-Sartain-The-Aqueduct-700x566.jpg"},"large":{"width":1308,"height":1057,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":118292,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/William-Sartain-The-Aqueduct-1308x1057.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"width":270,"height":270,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":9002,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/William-Sartain-The-Aqueduct-270x270.jpg"},"medium_large":{"width":768,"height":621,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":43730,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/William-Sartain-The-Aqueduct-768x621.jpg"},"1536x1536":{"width":1536,"height":1241,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":159603,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/William-Sartain-The-Aqueduct-1536x1241.jpg"},"2048x2048":{"width":2048,"height":1655,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":264886,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/William-Sartain-The-Aqueduct-2048x1655.jpg"},"small":{"width":375,"height":500,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":19431,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/William-Sartain-The-Aqueduct-375x500.jpg"},"medium-large":{"width":900,"height":727,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":58544,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/William-Sartain-The-Aqueduct-900x727.jpg"},"card":{"width":904,"height":565,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":50938,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/William-Sartain-The-Aqueduct-904x565.jpg"},"post":{"width":975,"height":500,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":51832,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/William-Sartain-The-Aqueduct-975x500.jpg"},"hero":{"width":1894,"height":1080,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":186257,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/William-Sartain-The-Aqueduct-1894x1080.jpg"}},"original_image":"William-Sartain-The-Aqueduct.jpg"},"all_day":true,"start_date":"2025-01-19 00:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"01","day":"19","hour":"00","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2026-06-01 23:59:59","end_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"06","day":"01","hour":"23","minutes":"59","seconds":"59"},"utc_start_date":"2025-01-19 08:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"01","day":"19","hour":"08","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2026-06-02 06:59:59","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"06","day":"02","hour":"06","minutes":"59","seconds":"59"},"timezone":"America\/Vancouver","timezone_abbr":"","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"$","currency_code":"USD","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"","show_map":false,"show_map_link":false,"hide_from_listings":true,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Exhibitions","slug":"exhibitions","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":201,"filter":"raw","id":17,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/17","collection":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":{"id":290,"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2023-03-28 10:28:29","date_utc":"2023-03-28 17:28:29","modified":"2024-03-07 10:38:06","modified_utc":"2024-03-07 18:38:06","url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/venue\/portland-art-museum\/","venue":"Portland Art Museum","description":"

The Museum is conveniently located on the historic Park Blocks in the center of downtown Portland, which is easy to get around by public transit or on foot. The Portland Business Alliance has installed way-finding signs which direct you to the cultural district, where the Museum is located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is generally plenty of street parking surrounding the Museum. These spaces range from 1 \u2013 4 hours and can be paid for using a credit card or the Parking Kitty app<\/a>. There are also surface parking lots, and parking garages within 1 \u2013 4 blocks of the Museum. The closest surface lot is located at SW Main St. between SW 10th Ave. and Park Ave, and there are dedicated accessible and van accessible spaces. This lot accepts credit card or the Reef app<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public transit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Getting to get to the Museum by public transportation is straightforward and economical. The bus and streetcar travel directly past the Museum, and the MAX light rail has a stop only four blocks away.\u00a0TriMet\u2019s Trip Planner<\/a>\u00a0gives you step-by-step travel directions from your location by bus, light rail, or streetcar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n