…or Industrialized Future?
The left half represents the industrialized future. Giant commercial barges are linked together, their huge paddle wheels turned by coal-generated steam. Smoke stacks are at the center of this half of the composition—a threatening industrial parallel to the dark clouds over Storm King Mountain. The barges seem to bear down menacingly on the small fishing craft.
Pictured: Samuel Colman, Storm King on the Hudson, 1866, oil, 32 1/8 x 59 7/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly.
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