Lost Landscapes
Charles Ethan Porter, a painter from Connecticut, may have been the only Black artist to have visited the Adirondacks in the 19th century. Though he was born free in 1847 in the North, the Civil War wouldn’t begin for another 14 years; uncertainty was a fact of life for all African Americans in the United States.
Porter was just a toddler when highlights how precarious freedom was for African Americans at that time.
