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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 .
National academician whose landscapes show the influence of the Hudson River School, he is believed to have studied under Asher Durand. Jasper Francis Cropsey: More images: 18 February 1823 23 April 1900 First-generation member of the Hudson River School, he painted autumn landscapes that startled viewers with their boldness and brilliance.
An 1837 portrait of Cole by fellow Hudson River School painter Asher Brown Durand. Thomas Cole was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. [1] [2] Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history paintings.
The Oxbow (The Connecticut River near Northampton) (1836) The Course of Empire (1833–1836), this animated image shows all five paintings in the series as separate frames. Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 – February 11, 1848) was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement.
He became part of the second generation of the Hudson River School in New York, an informal group of like-minded painters who started painting along the Hudson River. Their style was based on carefully detailed paintings with romantic, almost glowing lighting, sometimes called luminism. Bierstadt was an important interpreter of the western ...
Thomas Moran (February 12, 1837 – August 25, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth, took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist.
But Cropsey was best known for his lavish use of color and, as a first-generation member from the Hudson River School, painted autumn landscapes that startled viewers with their boldness and brilliance. As an artist, he believed landscapes were the highest art form and that nature was a direct manifestation of God.
John Frederick Kensett (March 22, 1816 – December 14, 1872) was an American landscape painter and engraver born in Cheshire, Connecticut.He was a member of the second generation of the Hudson River School of artists.