hudson river school of landscape painting

During a fifty-year period, an artistic movement developed in America that was based on Romanticism and inspired by the wild areas in the vicinity of New York?s Hudson River. The first native American school of landscape painting included artists Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand, and Thomas Doughty as well as Frederic Church, Thomas Moran, and Albert Bierstadt. While most of these artists did not think of themselves as belonging to a movement, they did share a sense of wonder at the grandeur of the New World?s remarkable scenic wilderness.

The story of artist Thomas Cole, founder of America's first formal art movement: the Hudson River school of painting.

Describes the history of the Hudson River School of landscape painting, and discusses the artists who created the nineteenth-century American landscapes, such as founder Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Asher Durand, Worthington Whittredge, and others.

Enjoy the beauty and variety of the American experience through the work of these great artists.

Features fifty-seven major Hudson River School paintings from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art's collection.

Profiles the many individuals and varying paint styles associated with the Hudson River School, including Washington Allston, Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett, and George Inness.

Presents paintings done by members of the Hudson River School from the early eighteen hundreds depicting the American landscape, as well as their representations of landscapes from around the world. Includes information on the lives of the painters and poets who were members of the school.