New Publication: "Peirce, Bierstadt, and the Topographic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century North America"

Charles Sanders Peirce, verso of letter from Francis C. Russell, ca. October 1896, ink on paper. Charles Sanders Peirce Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, MS Am 1632 (L387) (photograph provided by Houghton Library) C. Oliver O’Donnell (2021) Peirce, Bierstadt, and the Topographic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century North America, The Art Bulletin, 103:2, 104-128. A passage in a letter serves as a starting point for an exploration of the relationship between the phi..