Thomas Cole & Rolph Scarlett: Allegro
http://lacma.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/utopian-dreams-in-american-art/
Image coming soon.
Hylan Booker looks at "utopian romanticism and neoclassicism" in two paintings that share the title Allegro, one by Thomas Cole (1801 - 1848) and the other by Rolph Scarlett (1889 - 1984).
Booker notes that "advantageously fit into the definitions of allegro: one being a mental state, the other a musical composition. And though broad schism would place one in the nostalgic pastoral era and the other in the futuristic abstraction era, there was to me a mysterious albeit strange affinity they both shared."