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Scene from "Last of the Mohicans," Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund 1827. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Hartford, CT | Cole, Thomas | Description: Against mountain scenery the tiny figures of Native Americans are gathered on a rocky ledge for their tribal ceremony. Above them a large rock formation dwarfs the figures. | GA | |
Scene from Berchtesgadener Land 1874 Orlando Museum of Art Orlando, FL | Herzog, Herman | GA | ||
Schroon Mountain, Adirondacks 1838. Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Cole, Thomas | GA | ||
Seconnet Point, Rhode Island ca. 1880 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Whittredge, Worthington | Worthington Whittredge traveled to Newport, Rhode Island, in the fall of 1877. He was inspired by the French painter Charles-Francois Daubigny. One of the forerunners of impressionism, Daubigny emphasized the effects of light and color on the landscape (Janson, Worthington Whittredge, 1989). In this painting, Whittredge used bright, clean colors and... | Unrated | |
Sierra Nevada ca. 1871-1873. Reynolda House Museum of American Art Winston-Salem, NC | Bierstadt, Albert | GA | ||
Steaming Through The Hudson Valley 1868 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Boutelle, DeWitt Clinton | GA | ||
Storm King on the Hudson 1866 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Colman, Samuel | GA | ||
Storm in the Mountains ca. 1870 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | Bierstadt, Albert | GA | ||
Study of Beeches 1872 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Kensett, John Frederick | 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 |
- 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