Jeff Jahn reviews Seeing Nature at the Portland Art Museum (PAM), Oregon, on view though January 10, 2016.

Jahn writes that the show, "drawn from Paul Allen's collection … is a kind of survey of landscape paintings throughout history and as such maps the shifting expectations that viewers have for looking at what we consider the outdoors. One thing I very much like about the exhibition is the way it treats cityscapes as a part of nature and the landscape, thus to 'See Nature' we have to see our own role in it."