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Hudson River School

The Hudson River School was an American art movement in the mid-19th century. Centered in New York, its artists depicted Romantic landscapes of mountains, forests and waterways around the Hudson River. Paintings conveyed a vision of primeval wilderness and celebrated nationhood following the Frontier Thesis articulated by historian Frederick Jackson Turner.
Key artists include Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Asher Durand, Albert Bierstadt and Martin Johnson Heade. They aimed to capture unique American scenery, light and atmosphere. Their large-scale paintings featured dramatic vistas, luminous skies and natural details, achieved through direct observation and sketches. While drawing on European Romanticism, their works developed a distinctive style of idealized yet naturalistic landscape celebrating the American frontier.
The movement gained recognition in the 1840s and flourished until the 1870s. Changing tastes and exhaustion of scenic vistas led to its decline. But it shaped an ecological conscience and pioneered landscape as a subject of major art. The Hudson River School’s vision of nature as a source of spirituality and national pride influenced conservation and shaped American identity.
At its best, the school’s art captured a sense of beauty and human smallness in the face of nature’s grandeur. Paintings embodied hopes for America as a new Eden and democratic landscape of possibility. Church’s Cotopaxi and Heart of the Andes demonstrated the school’s ambition, with details from South America painstakingly incorporated into monumental works.
Though no longer at the forefront of American art by the late 1800s, the Hudson River School produced pioneering works that defined historical vision of nature and nation at the heart of 19th-century U.S. landscape painting. Their romantic and idealized paintings translated the American frontier experience into timeless and symbolic images that live on as icons of ecological and patriotic belief.

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Famous Artists

> Alfred Sisley
> Camille Pissarro
> Caravaggio
> Claude Monet
> Diego Velázquez
> Edgar Degas
> Édouard Manet
> Eugène Delacroix
> Francisco de Goya
> Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
> Isaac Levitan
> Ivan Shishkin
> Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
> Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
> John Singer Sargent
> John William Waterhouse
> Joseph Mallord William Turner
> Lawrence Alma-Tadema
> Leonardo da Vinci
> Michelangelo
> Paul Cézanne
> Paul Gauguin
> Peter Paul Rubens
> Pierre-Auguste Renoir
> Raphael Sanzio
> Rembrandt Van Rijn
> Vincent van Gogh
> William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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