A Quiet Voice of the Barbizon in America: The Life and Art of George Nelson Cass George Nelson Cass, a name perhaps less heralded than his contemporaries but nonetheless significant within the landscape tradition of 19th-century American art, emerged from the quietude of Canaan, New Hampshire around 1825. His life, though relatively undocumented in exhaustive detail, reveals an artist deeply attuned to the burgeoning Barbizon aesthetic and capable of rendering both expansive natural scenes and intimate still lifes with a refined sensibility. Cass’s artistic journey began with formal educatio…