Curatorial Narrative As we position “In the Berkshire Hills, Mass.” (1887) within the pantheon of American landscape painting, it is clear that Andrew Melrose was operating at the cusp of a significant shift in artistic direction. His adoption of Impressionist techniques evident in the loose brushwork and emphasis on capturing fleeting atmospheric effects while maintaining a Realistic commitment to representational detail, imbues this work with an intriguing tension between competing aesthetic goals. While its rustic subject matter might lead one to associate “In the Berkshire Hills, Mass.” with the more traditional country estates of the Gilded Age, it is precisely Melrose’s nuanced manipulation of light and color that imbues the piece with a sense of depth and spatial complexity. At an enlarged scale 71×44 inches being particularly apt for consideration in a high-end interior context the chromatic structure of the painting r