Private Collection / Smithsonian American Art Museum At the start of the 19th century, the United States ... or parallel a single stream and avoid waterfalls, rapids or other impasses.

The BBC's Diane Cole reports on an exhibition of 19th-century paintings believed to depict ... the dramatic vertical view of the gorge and the waterfalls flowing beyond. But this Eden was not ...

In the late 19th century, Swedish artist Gustaf ... Gallen-Kallela painted the icy Mantykoski Waterfall (1892-94). Another Gallen-Kallela painting on display is Lair of the Lynx (1908), which ...