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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.
One of his best-known works, and one of the iconic images of Hudson River School art, is his Storm King on the Hudson (1866), now in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. In the 1860s, Colman lived in Irvington, New York, where he made a number of paintings featuring the countryside around the village. [1]
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.
Bierstadt began painting scenes in New England and upstate New York, including in the Hudson River Valley. He was part of a group of artists known as the Hudson River School. In 1859, Bierstadt traveled westward in the company of Frederick W. Lander, a land surveyor for the U.S. government, to see those western American landscapes for his work. [5]
Mainly the earlier members of the Hudson River School, around the 1850-60’s, displayed man as in unison with nature in their landscape paintings by often painting men on a very small scale compared to the vast landscape. Thomas Hill often brought this technique into his own paintings in for example in his painting, Yosemite Valley 1889.
Barrow joined the American Art-Union in 1850, and exhibited his first painting at the National Academy of Design in 1852. Barrow opened his New York City studio in 1856, at the age of 32, in Greenwich Village , near that of Charles Loring Elliott [ 2 ] and other Hudson Valley School landscape painters. [ 4 ]
Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut.He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, best known for painting large landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets.