Art

“Constable’s Great Landscapes: The Six-Foot Paintings”: Nature constructed as an enduring historical emblem of English industriousness, divine advantage and instinctive grit was John Constable’s calling card. The 19th century British Romantic painter invented the now-familiar perspective, which permeates this remarkable and engaging exhibition. The show, composed of six large-scale works displayed alongside the full-sized sketches, trumpets a level of ambition that can gently rock a viewer back on his heels.

-- Christopher Knight

Ends Sunday at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino. (626) 405-2100; www.huntington.org.