Hudson River School
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The Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century American art movement made by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. Early on, the paintings typically depic
Thomas Cole (1801–1848), The Oxbow (The Connecticut River near Northampton) (1836), Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thomas Cole, A View of the Two Lakes and Mountain House, Catskill Mountains, Morning, 1844, Brooklyn Museum of Art
Frederic Edwin Church, Niagara Falls, 1857, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Asher Brown Durand
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Asher Brown Durand was an American engraver and painter of the Hudson River School.
Hudson River School
…York Evening Post on November 22, 1825. Cole was from England and the brilliant autumn colors in the American landscape inspired him. His close friend Asher Brown Durand became a prominent figure in the school. A prominent element of the Hudson River School was its themes of nationalism, nature, and property. Adherents…
Asher Brown Durand, c. 1869, by Abraham Bogardus
Asher Durand, Kindred Spirits, 1849
L-R: Henry Kirke Brown, Henry Peters Gray and Durand, 1850
The First Harvest in the Wilderness, c. 1855, Brooklyn Museum