1830Transcendentalism emerged bringing Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Amos Bronson Alcott, Margaret Fuller, and others to Cape Ann.Arts and Culture, Literary History, Art

Nature assumed a divinity in Transcendentalist thought, and a connection with nature was the means to the spiritual. Such spiritual striving was manifested artistically in Gloucester by Luminist artists, notably in Fitz Henry Lane’s late work.