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The Smithsonian American Art Museum recently collaborated with museums in Canada and Mexico to create a virtual exhibition of landscape art and the continent we share.

Panoramas: The North American Landscape in Art combines more than 300 Canadian, American, and Mexican landscapes with a variety of multimedia features and educational activities to promote cultural understanding.

From the comfort of your home or office, you can experience amazing scenes from all over North America—from Alberta or Alaska to Acapulco.

This painting by Emanuel Leutze is one of 100 landscapes from the the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection that you can explore on this landmark web site.

Pictured: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1816 Germany–1868 USA, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (mural study, U.S. Capitol), 1861, oil, 33 1/4 x 43 3/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Sara Carr Upton.