Opportunities to see nineteenth-century American art are rare in Australia. This beautiful small exhibition offers fascinating parallels between Australian and American landscape painting of the period, both popularly admired as expressions of a national psyche, revealing comparable interests in territorial expansion, exploration, settlement, displacement of prior inhabitants, transplantation of European values, and a deep reverence for the natural world. Loans from the Terra Foundation Collection of American Art are brought together with paintings and prints from Melbourne University’s Russell and Mab Grimwade ‘Miegunyah’ Collection, plus a few important paintings from other Australian institutions.