| Preview | Description | Artist | Notes
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 | Distant View of the Catskills 1891 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Casilear, John William | GA | |
 | Mountain Lake Scene 1883 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Casilear, John William |  Jointly owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Wendell S. Arrington, in honor of his parents, Joseph Earl Arrington and Genevieve T. Arrington, 1979 | GA |
 | Cliffs of the Upper Colorado River, Wyoming Territory 1882 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Moran, Thomas | when Indians rode there. Such vividly colored western scenes proved to be a bonanza for the Union Pacific's chief rival, the Northern Pacific Railroad. Jay Cooke, the Philadelphia financier who owned the Northern Pacific, kept Moran on retainer for several years, generating nostalgic images that helped to draw thousands of greenhorns out to the... | GA |
 | Excelsior Geyser, Yellowstone Park 1873 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Moran, Thomas | GA | |
 | Fort George Island, Florida 1878 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Moran, Thomas | In 1877, Thomas Moran traveled with his wife to Fort George Island, Florida, and made small studies of the trees and beaches, images that were radically different from his sweeping vistas of Yellowstone. Within twenty years after this painting was created, the balmy coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida had become fashionable tourist... | GA |
 | Mist in Kanab Canyon, Utah 1892 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Moran, Thomas | GA | |
 | Rainbow over the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone 1900 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Moran, Thomas | GA | |
 | The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone 1893-1901 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Moran, Thomas | GA | |
 | The White Mountains 1874 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Moran, Thomas | GA | |
 | Valley of Cuernavaca 1903 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Moran, Thomas | GA | |
 | On the Hudson oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Doughty, Thomas | GA | |
 | Mountain and Lake 1834 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | Doughty, Thomas | GA | |
 | Landscape with Stream and Mountains 1833 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Doughty, Thomas | GA | |
 | River View with Hunters and Dogs ca. 1850 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Doughty, Thomas | GA | |
 | Niagara Falls in Winter 1868 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | Cropsey, Jasper Francis | GA | |
 | Sailing (The Hudson at Tappan Zee) 1883 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Cropsey, Jasper Francis | ible through the thin paint. These sketchy strokes, many of which are not part of the final design, give a somewhat unfinished, rough vitality to the work. | GA |
 | Sunset after a storm in the Catskill mountains c. 1860 Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI | Cropsey, Jasper Francis | GA | |
 | Pompton Plains, New Jersey 1867 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Cropsey, Jasper Francis | GA | |
 | Autumn Landscape, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Orange County, New York oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Cropsey, Jasper Francis | GA | |
 | Lake Wawayanda 1876 Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College Oberlin, OH | Cropsey, Jasper Francis | GA | |
 | West Rock, New Haven (East Rock, near Whitneyville) 1849. New Britain Museum of American Art New Britain, CT | Church, Frederic Edwin | Description: Landscape with stream in foreground, figures loading hay onto a cart at center, and the West Rock bluff in the center distance. | GA |
 | Niagara Falls March 1856. Smithsonian Institution New York, NY | Church, Frederic Edwin | GA | |
 | Aurora Borealis 1865 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Church, Frederic Edwin | GA | |
 | Autumn in North America Before 1857. Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Poughkeepsie, NY | Church, Frederic Edwin | GA | |
 | Niagara Falls by Moonlight 1856 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Church, Frederic Edwin | GA | |
 | The Monastery of San Pedro (Our Lady of the Snows) 1879 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Church, Frederic Edwin | GA | |
 | Natural Bridge, Virginia 1852. University of Virginia Art museum Charlottesville, VA | Church, Frederic Edwin | GA | |
 | 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 |
 | Catskill Creek, New York 1845. New York Historical Society New York, NY | Cole, Thomas | GA | |
 | Home in the Woods 1847. Reynolda House Museum of American Art Winston-Salem, NC | Cole, Thomas | GA | |
 | Schroon Mountain, Adirondacks 1838. Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | Cole, Thomas | GA | |
 | Falls of Kaaterskill (Kaaterskill Falls) 1826 Gulf States Paper Corporation, Fine Art Department, Warner Collection Tuscakoosa, AL | Cole, Thomas | Description: View of Catskill Mountain scene with Kaaterskill Falls and tiny figure of an Indian in the center. | GA |
 | Bears by Stream c. 1900 National Museum of Wildlife Art Jackson Hole, WY | Herzog, Herman | GA | |
 | Caribou by a Mountain Lake c. 1880 National Museum of Wildlife Art Jackson Hole, WY | Herzog, Herman | GA | |
 | Scene from Berchtesgadener Land 1874 Orlando Museum of Art Orlando, FL | Herzog, Herman | GA | |
 | Mill on a Torrent 1871 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Herzog, Herman | GA | |
 | Man Hunting (Western Landscape) 1871 Anonymous Collection (2) Unknown | Herzog, Herman | GA | |
 | Mill with Raging Torrent [Sutter's Mill] 1870 Anonymous Collection (2) Unknown | Herzog, Herman | GA | |
 | A Mountain Torrent oil on canvas Anonymous Collection (2) Unknown | Herzog, Herman | GA | |
 | By the Banks oil on canvas Anonymous Collection (2) Unknown | Herzog, Herman | GA | |
 | Campfire in Moonlight oil on canvas Anonymous Collection (2) Unknown | Herzog, Herman | GA | |
 | The Hudson River at West Point 1864 The Terra Foundation for American Art Chicago, IL | Bricher, Alfred Thompson | 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 |
 | Landscape with Cattle 1872 St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Hart, James McDougal | This quiet idyll is typical of the post-Civil War paintings of James Hart. A herd of cattle, trailing into the distance at the left, leads the viewer's eye from the foreground back to the rural village in the distance in a lyric style and nostalgic sensibility that evoke the approaches of the French Barbizon painters of mid-century. | GA |
 | Marine and Cattle 1884 St. Johnsbury Athenaeum St. Johnsbury, VT | Hart, James McDougal | This composition by James M. Hart illustrates how the artist's pastoral art developed during his later career. The paintings soft, tonal brushwork and expansive space almost diametrically oppose the crisp specificity of his early work. | GA |
- The Hudson River School
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