Hudson River School

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Hudson River School Thomas Cole (1801-1848) Asher
B. Durand (1796-1886) Frederic Edwin Church
(1826-1900) George Inness (1825-1894) Albert
Bierstadt (1830-1892) Thomas Moran (1837-1926) W.
Allston (1779-1843)
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Group of American landscape painters, working
from 1825 to 1875. The 19th-century romantic
movements of England, Germany, and France were
introduced to the United States by such writers
as Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper.
At the same time, American painters were studying
in Rome, absorbing much of the romantic aesthetic
of the European painters. Adapting the
European ideas about nature to a growing pride in
the beauty of their homeland, for the first time
a number of American artists began to devote
themselves to landscape painting instead of
portraiture.
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Particularly attracted by the grandeur of
Niagara Falls and the scenic beauty of the Hudson
River Valley, the Catskills, and the White Mts.
newly opened West The works of these artists
reflected a new concept of wildernessone in
which man was an insignificant intrusion in a
landscape more beautiful than fearsome. The
use of light effects, to dramatically portray
such elements as mist and sunsets, developed into
a subspecialty known as Luminism. 3 phases
Formative, Mature, Expansionist
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