Gallery wrap is a method of stretching an artist's canvas so that the canvas wraps around the sides and is secured a hidden, wooden frame.
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, artists primarily painted portraits and some landscapes in a style based mainly on English painting. American School 'Turks Bird In Flight' Canvas Art,30x47 From 1820 the Hudson River School began to produce Romantic landscape painting that was original and matched the huge scale of American landscapes. Artist: American School Subject: Animals Style: Beachy Product Type: Gallery-Wrapped Canvas Art This ready to hang, gallery-wrapped art piece features a bird flying over a teal ocean. The American Revolution produced a demand for patriotic art, especially history painting, and a parallel devolopment in rural America was the American craft movement, which began as a reaction to the industrail revolution.