The Landscape That Defined America:
The Hudson River School

  

  

  

Exhibition

  

  
The Landscape That Defined America
  
Exhibition
Artists
  
Art & God
Art & Nation
Art & Environment
Your Search for Meaning
Picturing Nature
 
Online Resources

 

 

FREDERIC E. CHURCH
Morning Looking East Over the Hudson Valley from the Catskill Mountains
Oil on canvas, 1848

THOMAS COLE
Lake Winnepesaukee
Oil on canvas, 1827 or 1828

THOMAS COLE
View on Catskill Creek
Oil on composition board, c. 1833

THOMAS COLE
Ruined Tower
Oil on composition board, c. 1832-36

JASPER F. CROPSEY
Dawn of Morning, Lake George
Oil on canvas, 1868

ASHER B. DURAND
Catskill Mountains
Oil on canvas, c. 1830

ASHER B. DURAND
An Old Man’s Reminiscences
Oil on canvas, 1845

ASHER B. DURAND
Cattskill Creek (Summer Afternoon)
Oil on canvas, 1855

ASHER B. DURAND
Cathedral Ledge
Oil on canvas, 1855

SANFORD R. GIFFORD
Mount Merino and the City of Hudson in Autumn
Oil on canvas, c. 1851

JAMES McDONALD HART
View on the Normanskill, near Albany, N.Y.
Oil on canvas, c. 1850

JAMES McDONALD HART
Landscape with Deer
Oil on canvas, 1856

JAMES McDONALD HART
The Adirondacks
Oil on canvas, 1861

JAMES McDONALD HART
Valley Lands
Oil on wood panel, 1867

WILLIAM HART
Distant View of Albany
Oil on canvas, 1848

WILLIAM HART
Scene in the Helderbergs Near Albany
Oil on canvas, c. 1849

GEORGE INNESS
An Adirondack Pastorale
Oil on canvas, 1869

DAVID JOHNSON
Study of Nature, Dresden, Lake George 
Oil on canvas, 1870

JOHN F. KENSETT
The Mountain Stream
Oil on canvas, c. 1845

JOHN F. KENSETT
Valley Scene (Study near the Catksills)
Oil on canvas, c. 1855

HOMER DODGE MARTIN
Bash-Bish Falls
Oil on canvas, 1859

HOMER DODGE MARTIN
Storm King on the Hudson
Oil on canvas, 1862