Samuel Colman was an American painter, interior designer, and writer, probably best remembered for his paintings of the Hudson River.
The Hill of the Alhambra, Granada, California (1865), oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Storm King on the Hudson (1866), oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum; one of Colman's best known works
Late November in a Santa Barbara Cañon, California (c.1888), watercolor on paper, Brooklyn Museum
On the Viga, Outskirts of the City of Mexico (1892), oil on canvas, Brooklyn Museum
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
Samuel Colman
…a bookstore, attracting a literate clientele that may have influenced Colman's artistic development. He is believed to have studied briefly under the Hudson River School painter Asher Durand, and he exhibited his first work at the National Academy of Design in 1850. By 1854 he had opened his own New York City studio…
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.