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/Home/Arts/Visual Arts/Art Styles/Hudson River School A Lifetime of Color: Study Art Votes:0 Glosssary: Hudson River School A group of painters who created glorious paintings of the wild American landscape . Thomas Cole , the leading artist in the group, painting many works of New York's Hudson River Valley . Others, including Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Edwin Church , traveled to the wildernesses of North and South America and painted vast canvasses which enraptured the American public. Some artists in this group explored ways to use light effects to capture dramatic skies, mists and sunsets, forming a subgroup of artists called Luminists . Back to Home Page Create Art Study Art Play Art Games Teach Art Newsletter Archive Feedback Copyright 1998-01 Sanford Read More Go to Site Hudson River School Votes:0 Hudson River School HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL The artists involved in the Hudson River School were brought together by their deep love of nature in landscape. They felt the wondrous natural beauty of the gorges and highlands found in the Hudson River Valley were "direct manifestations" of God, and they sought to render and paint exactly what they saw. Artists of the Hudson River School found the landscapes in America more inspirational than the widely-painted landscapes of Europe. They also agreed that a landscape was a greater artform than a protrait or historical narrative. The Hudson River School was part of the Romantic period in the United States which began about 1825 and ended about 1875. Some of the most famous artists from the school are Winslow Homer, Fredric Church and Thomas Cole. Re Read More Go to Site Hudson River School of Painting on Exhibit -- by the Half Moon Press Votes:0 August, 1999 issue Hudson River School of Painting on Exhibit An exhibition of one of the largest and most important collections of the Hudson River School paintings, Art and Nature: The Hudson River School, will make its first northeast stop this year at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers. This exhibition of the world-renowned collection of 19th Century landscape paintings from the Albany Institute of History and Art will open Friday, October 15 and coincide with the grand reopening of the newly restored Glenview Mansion. It will feature 26 paintings from the major Hudson River School artists, the group that received their name from critics and historians because of their passion for painting landscape scenes, especially along the Hudson River. The Albany Institute, founded in 1791, has b Read More Go to Site introduction Votes:0 Introduction The Hudson River School represents the first native school of American Art. Dating from the 1820s, it was a loosely organized group of painters who took as their subject the unique naturalness of the American continent, starting with the Hudson River region in New York, but eventually extending in time and space all the way to California and the 1870s. The time period in which the school's artists were active was a time of momentous social, political and economic change in American history, and the work of the Hudson River School artists represents part of the process of national self-conceptualization taking place in those years. In the course of its fifty year history, the paintings of the Hudson River School spoke in symbolic language to both a great hopefulness and a wistf Read More Go to Site

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