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![]() | A Quiet Nook 1885 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Hart, William | GA | |
![]() | An Autumn Day 1865 St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Hart, William | ![]() The earliest of three paintings by William Hart in the Athenaeum's collection, An Autumn Day appears to portray Whiteface Mountain in New York's Adirondack Mountains. The peaceful scene depicts the pristine American landscape with deer wading quietly in the foreground river. Whereas many of William Hart's landscapes represent the impact of man on the... | GA |
![]() | Autumn Morning 1876 St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Hart, William | GA | |
![]() | Summer - The Passing Shower 1873 St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Hart, William | ![]() William Hart's Summer—The Passing Shower offers a charming pendant for his later Autumn Morning. Here, his depiction of a sudden summer rain storm provides an opportunity to explore varying effects of light and shadow falling across the landscape. The rain does not disrupt the peacefulness of the scene, however, as the cattle in the foreground, the... | GA |
![]() | Midsummer 1870 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Hart, James McDougal | GA | |
![]() | Cattle and Landscape 1867 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Hart, James McDougal | GA | |
![]() | Picnic on the Hudson 1854 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Hart, James McDougal | GA | |
![]() | Morning in New England 1873 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Hart, James McDougal | ![]() rican landscape. Hart's membership in the Hudson River School is evident in the earth-tone palette and panoramic viewpoint of the scene. | GA |
![]() | Sunday Afternoon, Berkshire County, Mass. 1857 Harvard University Art Museums Cambridge, MA | Hart, James McDougal | GA | |
![]() | Village Scene near Albany, New York 1850 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Hart, James McDougal | ![]() This image shows a small town to the west of James M. Hart’s home in Albany, New York. He preferred to paint intimate views of country life, rather than dramatic vistas of the wilderness, to show that man and nature could coexist in peace. In Village Scene, the comforting view of farm life, with its children, grazing cows, and picturesque... | GA |
- The Hudson River School
The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose... Read more