More Than a Turnpike
Two hundred and fifteen years ago today, New Jersey became the third state to ratify the Constitution.
In addition to its highway system, industry, and ocean resorts, the Garden State sports mountains, farmland, and forests. Coastal plains cover more than half the state, and these low-lying areas give way to ecologically critical wetlands. Henry Ossawa Tanner's painting Marshes in New Jersey recreates the mysterious beauty of the night landscape with a tonalist palette of pastels.
Pictured: Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1859 USA–1937 France, Marshes in New Jersey, 1895, pastel and pencil on paper mounted on paperboard, 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred T. Morris, Jr.
Two hundred and fifteen years ago today, New Jersey became the third state to ratify the Constitution.
In addition to its highway system, industry, and ocean resorts, the Garden State sports mountains, farmland, and forests. Coastal plains cover more than half the state, and these low-lying areas give way to ecologically critical wetlands. Henry Ossawa Tanner's painting Marshes in New Jersey recreates the mysterious beauty of the night landscape with a tonalist palette of pastels.