Agnew here, welcome back to the History Thread. I’ll be around off and on since I have a presentation for work today. Enjoy George Hetzel’s painting Fishing at Shade Run Furnace (1869), a wonderfully expressive example of the Scalp Level School of American artists who drew inspiration from the foreboding forest of southwestern Pennsylvania. Hetzel and other artists combined the naturalistic style of the French Borbizon school with the rich Chiaroscuro borrowed from the European masters, for work that’s both deeply expressive and impressively realistic.