In 1825, the English émigré painter Thomas Cole sailed up the Hudson River to the Catskill Mountains, producing a series of landscape paintings that won him almost instant fame when he returned to New York City. The paintings caught the imagination of a public already entranced with the rugged beauty and seemingly untouched wilderness presented by writers such as James Fenimore Cooper. Cole’s work inspired a uniquely American movement of pastoral landscape painting that explored themes of ...
A breathtaking selection of works from the largest and finest collection of Hudson River paintings in the world Hudson River School paintings are among America's most admired and well-loved artwork...
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Though the earliest references to the term “Hudson River School” in the 1870s were disparagingly aimed, the label has never been supplanted and fairly characterizes the artistic body, its New York...
The Albany Institute of History & Art connects diverse audiences to the art, history, and culture of the Upper Hudson Valley through its collections, exhibitions, and programs.
The Hudson River School was the first movement unique to American art. This landscape painting tradition tapped into an important feature of early national identity: pride in the natural scenery.
Hudson River School STEAM: Art & the Environment ; Lesson 1- Landscapes of the Past ; Lesson 2- Changing Landscapes ; Lesson 3- Landscapes of the Future
The Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. Early on, the paintings typically depicted the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, including the Catskill, Adironda...
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Hudson River school, large group of American landscape painters of several generations who worked between about 1825 and 1870. The name, applied retrospectively, refers to a similarity of intent ra...