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The Hudson River School is really the first coherent school of American art and it helped shape the mythos of the American landscape. The artists of the School, working from 1825 to 1875, infused the American landscape with the dreams and ambitions of a young nation poised for greatness.

Beginning with the works of Thomas Cole, acknowledged founder and key figure in the establishment of the School, landscape art became the prevalent genre of nineteenth-century painting. Cole, whose dramatic and colorful landscapes are among the most impressive of the group, may be said to have been its leader during the its most active years. The work of over 20 artists is included here, including paintings byHenry Inman, Jasper Cropsey, Frederic E. Church, George Inness, Sanford Gifford, Martin Johnson Heade, Albert Bierstadt, William Stanley Haseltine, and Thomas Moran. ... Read more

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An update of Bernard Karpel's Arts in America. ... Read more

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Exhibit catalog of American paintings in the Hudson River School landscape genre of the 19th century. Black and white reproductions of some paintings, introductory essay on the Hudson River School, and short narrative on each painting included in the catalog. Works by 47 artists are included: Cole, Bierstadt, Church, Cropsey, Doughty, Durand, Innes, Kensett, and many others. ... Read more

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Chapters: Panoramic Painting, Panorama, White Mountain Art, Romantic Era Panoramas, List of Hudson River School Artists, Diorama, Little Switzerland, Hudson River School, Shan Shui, Aerial Landscape Art, Inscape, Cyclorama, Macchiaioli, Skyline, Cloudscape, Motif Number 1, Veduta, Panorama of London, Seascape, Brown County Art Colony, Panorama Mesdag, Richmond Group, Hoosier Group. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 125. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of the work. Sky is almost always included in the view, and weather is often an element of the composition. Detailed landscapes as a distinct subject are not found in all artistic traditions, and develop when there is already a sophisticated tradition of representing other subjects. The two main traditions spring from Western painting and Chinese art, going back well over a thousand years in both cases. Landscape photography has been very important since the 19th century, and is covered by its own article. The word landscape is from the Dutch, landschap originally meaning a patch of cultivated ground, and then an image. The word entered the English language at the start of the 17th century, purely as a term for works of art; it was not used to describe real vistas before 1725. Landscape with scene from the Odyssey, Rome, c. 60-40 BCE. Zhan Ziqian, Strolling About in Spring, a very early Chinese landscape, c. 600 Shen Zhou, Poet on a Mountain c. 1500. Painting and poem by Shen Zhou:"White clouds encircle the mountain wa...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1359329 ... Read more

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Title: American sublime.(Hudson River school of landscape painting)
Author: Michael J. Lewis
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2002
Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Review
Volume: 21Issue: 1Page: 27(7)

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