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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, Adirondack, and White Mountains.
The Hudson River School was America’s first true artistic fraternity. Its name was coined to identify a group of New York City-based landscape painters that emerged about 1850 under the influence of the English émigré Thomas Cole (1801–1848) and flourished until about the time of the Centennial.
An outgrowth of the Romantic movement, the Hudson River school was the first native school of painting in the United States; it was strongly nationalistic both in its proud celebration of the natural beauty of the American landscape and in the desire of its artists to become independent of European schools of painting.
The New Hudson River School, a group of approximately twenty-five artists, extend the core identity of the 19 th-century movement by painting contemporary landscapes and subjects from the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area.
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site preserves and interprets the original home and studios of the artist and early environmentalist Thomas Cole (1801-1848). Cole founded the influential art movement of the United States, now known as the Hudson River School of landscape painting.
The Hudson River School is renowned for its focus on three fundamental aspects: evocative allegorical landscapes, exploration of the American West epitomized by the Rocky Mountain School, and the ethereal quality of light found in Luminism.
A look at the Hudson River School and its role in shaping American landscape painting, from Thomas Cole to Frederic Edwin Church.