Landscape with Buildings 19th-20th century

Editor: Here we have Denman Waldo Ross’s watercolor, *Landscape with Buildings*. It’s dreamlike, almost a memory, and the composition is quite unusual. What strikes you about it? Curator: I see a critique of land ownership embedded in this seemingly gentle landscape. The blurred boundaries, the almost ghostly depiction of the buildings – is Ross suggesting the tenuous nature of our claim on the land? How do we define belonging when the landscape itself resists clear definition? Editor: That’s a fascinating point. I hadn’t considered the political implications. Curator: It invites us to question whose stories are embedded in these landscapes. Thank you for opening up this interpretation. Editor: Absolutely, it's been enlightening to consider this landscape through a critical lens!