Simulacra

I was just at the library flipping through a book called "A Sense of Place; The Artist and the American Land" when I found this painting from 1870:

Sanford Robinson Gifford, "Night on the Hudson River", 1870

The resemblance of this painting to my own painting done this summer is uncanny, but the most bizarre part is that I had never seen the Gifford painting before today. Guess there really is nothing new under the sun...

Nathan Abels, "Pursuit", Acrylic and Oil on Panel, 24x36" 2008