The Hudson River School / Yaeger, Bert D

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.

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.

Color portfolio of American landscape paintings of the Hudson River School with commentary on some of the movement's leading artists, such as Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, whose works provided some of the first documentation of the fledgling mation's wilderness areas.