Oct 06, 2009 i was looking for a detailed overview of the artists of the hudson river school. The pai ntings typically dep ict the hudso n river valley and the surrounding area, including the catskill, adirondack, and white mountains. Sep 12, 2018 the painters of the hudson river school were grandiose, romantic, dramatic and brilliantly colorful. Church proved his worthiness, and within a year he was exhibiting landscapes at the national academy of design alongside his teacher. Louise minks 1999 the hudson river school is a coffee table art book containing an excellent selection from a distinctively american genre, coupled with an informative narrative on the history of the movement. Largely selftaught as an artist, he was influenced by such earlier europeans as claude lorrain, john constable, and j. American art gallery hudson river school art for sale. Asher durands kindred spirits 1849 shows thomas cole and william cullen bryant, a poet of the age, discussing the beauty of nature.
A breathtaking selection of works from the largest and finest collection of hudson river paintings in the world hudson river school paintings are among americas most admired and wellloved artworks. He is a somewhat lesserknown figure of the 19thcentury american art world, but was the close friend and traveling companion of several of the important hudson river school artists. Scenes of solitude from hudson river school artists. List of books and articles about hudson river school online. The painters of the hudson river school were grandiose, romantic, dramatic and brilliantly colorful. New york ap on either side of the hudson river, two artists homes tell the story of that famous genre of american landscape painting known as the hudson river school. It starts in new york and goes up the river in location and forward in history. They also helped define the nation, championing wild america to a population that often saw. The art trail connects you with the places in nature that thomas cole and his fellow hudson river school artists painted. It features works by all the greatest artists of the group, including thomas cole, asher durand, albert bierstadt, and frederic church. The hudson river school was americas first true artistic fraternity.
The hudson river is a 315mile 507 km river in new york. Martin johnson heade august 11, 1819 september 4, 1904 was an american painter known for his salt marsh landscapes, seascapes, and depictions of tropical birds such. The socalled hudson river school has a place of special importance in the history of american painting. The hudson river school of landscape painting was the nations first major art movement and celebrates americas natural magnificence.
The englishborn painter thomas cole 18011848 is generally considered the founder of the hudson river school. Its name was coined to identify a group of new york citybased landscape painters that emerged about 1850 under the influence of the english emigre thomas cole 18011848 and flourished until about the time of the centennial. The narrative covers the three standard phases of the hudson river school, from formative to mature to expansionist. Works by the second ge neration o f artists associ ated with the school expanded to include other. Questroyals comprehensive inventory of over 500 19th and 20thcentury american paintings is the most diverse in our field. First of the group of artists properly classified with the hudson river school was thomas doughty. Hudson river school paintings are among americas most admired and wellloved artworks. Like romantic painters in britain and germany, hudson river school artists embraced the landscape as a meaningful subject, precisely as industrialization began to change terrains. Scenes of solitude from hudson river school artists the.
Presenting concise overviews of artists and movements that a. Long considered a profitable, but lowly, subject for serious artists since it involved merely copying what was seen, landscape painting received new attention in the mid19 th century. How the hudson river school became americas first art. How thomas cole and the hudson river school artists helped. The paintings typically depict the hudson river valley and the surrounding area, including the catskill, adirondack, and white mountains. He was a highly regarded artist of his time, and was friends with several leading hudson river school artists including albert bierstadt and sanford robinson gifford. Jason lafountain brings not only a detailed survey of the hudson river school painters but elegantly weaves contemporary thought and artists into his lectures and commentary. The hudson river school was neither a school nor art movement in the contemporary sense of the term, but a group of landscape painters who began working in the hudson river valley of new york state. Hudson river school the first coherent school of american art active from 1825 to 1870.
Shop our wide selection of hudson river school art and other art from the worlds best galleries and artists on 1stdibs. Their work was characterized by an interest in realistic depictions of nature and a burning desire to celebrate distinctly american scenery. Hudsons book river of dreams the story of the hudson river, was named the new york state childrens book of the year in 2009. Beautifully reproduced paintings by hudson river school artists. Pbs documentary explores hudson river school art the. A lot of the understanding of art comes from the history context. Art along the hudson is a core trip in the smithsonian journeys repertory. Between 1825 and 1875, american artists created a style whose central theme was the exploration of the new land. Such artists as thomas cole, frederic church, and albert bierstadt left a powerful legacy to american art, embodying in their epic works the reverence for nature and the national idealism that prevailed during the middle of the nineteenth century. Choose your favorite hudson river school paintings from millions of available designs. Their legacy embodies the reverence for nature and the national idealism that prevailed in their time.
The oil paintings also likewise portray the american landscape as a pastoral setting, where people and nature coincide. Copplestone traces the history and origins of the technique, then follows with brief biographies of some of the bestknown river school artists. Gorgeously and amply illustrated, the book includes paintings by all the major figures of the hudson river school. Eventually going beyond the hudson to the west and south america. The artists represented are central to the development of the hudson river school, and include victor audubon, albert bierstadt, george innes, asher durand, thomas cole, frederick edwin church, winslow homer, sanford robinson gifford and john frederick kensett. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. The hudson river school artists portrayed humans and nature coexisting. Most of the inspiration came from the catskill region of new york that provided grandiose scenes of the valley through which the hudson river flows through. Although there were many professional artists working in the early and developing american society from the 17th to the 19th centuries, most of them, apart from the many charming naive practitioners, were itinerant portrait painters or those who looked to europe for their style and. The name, applied retrospectively, refers to a similarity of intent rather than to a geographic location, though many of the older members of the group drew inspiration from the picturesque catskill region north of new york city, through which the hudson river flows. Hudson river school artists hudson river art trail.
An outgrowth of the romantic movement, the hudson river school was the first native school of painting in the united states. List of books and articles about hudson river school. This book features fiftyseven major hudson river school paintings from the collection of the wadsworth atheneum museum of art, recognized as the most extensive and finest in the world. Apr 25, 2017 the hudson river school art movement was particularly influential on landscape painters in the northeastern united states in the 1800s. The river is named after henry hudson, an englishman sailing for the dutch east india company, who explored it in 1609, and after whom canadas hudson bay is also named. The natural beauty of the hudson river valley was celebrated and explored by artists in the hudson river school. The following is a list of painters in the hudson river school, a mid19thcentury american. Like most second generation hudson river school painters, he used extraordinary detail, romanticism, and luminism in his paintings, and he was heavily influenced by his travels outside the united. The hudson river school was a mid19th century art movement that focused on nature. There is much to explore about the arts in the hudson river valley. All hudson river school paintings ship within 48 hours and include a 30day moneyback guarantee. Thomas coles story thomas cole national historic site. Hudson river school art movement paintings the worlds.
The grand women artists of the hudson river school arts. The foundations of the hudson river school can be found in the romanticist painting that took hold in europe at the end of the 18th century. The hudson river school was a mid19th century american art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism. The artists even created a distinct style and content that evolved into what could be considered americas only school of art, proving that the country was more than an untamed colony. In lush, richly colored depictions of quiet river valleys, dramatic. More than 40 fullcolor reproductions of some of their greatest paintings illustrate this historical overview of the hudson river school of landscape painting and the lives and works of artists thomas cole, frederic church, asher durand, sanford gifford, albert bierstadt, jasper cropsey, worthington whittredge, william merritt chase, martin johnson heade, john frederick kensett, george inness, and other american landscape painters who created a new and quintessentially american style of art. The hudson river school hrs was a group of american landscape painters who were active from about 1825 to about 1880. Such artists as thomas cole, frederic church, and albert bierstadt left a powerful legacy to american art, embodying in their epic works the reverence for nature and the a breathtaking selection of works from the largest and finest collection of hudson river. The hudson river sc hool was a mid19th century ame rican art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticis m. Different views in hudson river school painting columbia. The hudson river school is a wonderful truly american art movement and this book is a good overview of many of the key artists in the movement as well as some lesser known ones, great as i learned a few additional artists. And these works have always been welcomed on campus when the loeb opened, they composed the museums largest collection. The clara endicott sears book highlights among the hudson river artists, one of the early books on the subject houghton mifflin, boston, 1947, 216 pages of text and plateslisted robert weir among the 22 artists profiled, and used the same robert weir painting of the hudson river, which is clearly done in the hudson river school style, as the.
Artists homes tell the story of the hudson river school. Hudson river school painter and student of thomas cole. Such artists as thomas cole, frederic church, and albert bierstadt left a powerful legacy to american art, embodying in their epic works the reverence for nature and the national idealism that. Art historians have come to disagree with the common view that heade is a hudson river school painter, a view given wide currency by heades inclusion in a landmark exhibition of hudson river school landscapes at the metropolitan museum of art in 1987. There is an overview of the movement and some of the artists, but it is not meant to be an indepth treatise. 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. Dreaming america with the hudson river school the village voice. In this new work, color reproductions of more than 115 paintings capture the beauty and illuminate the aesthetic and philosophical principles of the hudson river school painters.
The rugged terrain of the clove was created by glacial action and the erosive forces of the streams that cut into its depths and cascade down its sides. At the time of publication, some 50 artists were considered to be part of the movement. The trip was a minimasterclass in art history and criticism. Turner, all of whom had helped develop landscape as an independent genre of painting. I was looking for a detailed overview of the artists of the hudson river school.
Hudson lives in the hudson valley in new york and has been a member of the board of trustees of the thomas cole national historic site since 2005. He traveled widely and excelled at landscape painting, many examples of which are now in major museums. Hudson river school paintings reflect three subjects of american history in the nineteenth century. Before this, western artists portrayed nature as evil or as something wild that needed to be civilized. Rather than focusing solely on boldface names, we offer a full range of talent, from the famous to the relatively undiscovered, spanning the hudson river school through modernism. Accompanying a major traveling exhibition, the book is also timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of henry hudsons first voyage up the hudson river. The name for the group has been variously attributed to either the art critic clarence cook or the artist homer dodge martin, but, in any case, it. Mar 03, 2020 the intoxication of the hudson river school derives in part from the quantity of its output a quantity amply indulged by the mets retrospective american paradise and by the book that. The way that romantic paintersparticularly in england and germanyembraced landscape painting on a grand scale was highly influential. In 1844, daniel wadsworth wrote to cole, asking him to take the promising church as a pupil.
It had previously been observed by italian explorer giovanni da verrazzano sailing for king francis i of france in 1524, as he became the first european known to have. Hudson river school american art movement britannica. This slim and inexpensive book from england serves as a first introduction to the hudson river school of landscape painting in america. Hudson river school artists shared an awe of the magnificence of nature as well as a belief that the untamed american scenery reflected the national character. Hudson river school paintings are beautiful, but historical context increases the viewers understanding of the weight of the work. It had previously been observed by italian explorer giovanni da verrazzano sailing for king francis i of france in. The hudson river school essay the metropolitan museum of. These artists frequented the catskill mountains of new york. Not all hudson river school artists are represented, but a good number are, including the most wellknown, such as cole, durand, and bierstadt.
The grand women artists of the hudson river school unknown and forgotten to history, these painters of americas great landscapes are finally getting their due in a new exhibition field beach. Hudson river school, large group of american landscape painters of several generations who worked between about 1825 and 1870. The artists of the hudson river school were influenced less by european artists than by american artists and writers. The clove, a distinctive feature or cleft in the catskills, was one of the places most painted by the hudson river school artists. How the hudson river school became americas first art movement.
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