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 PageCreate ArtStudy ArtPlay Art GamesTeach ArtNewsletter ArchiveFeedback Copyright 1998-01 Sanford

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 ...

Index of Hudson River School Painters ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ This index, selected from the Hudson River Reference Collection which consists of over 1,000 images of Hudson River School Paintings, contains those images which the library has obtained permission to display under the fair use doctrine. They cannot be reproduced without permission from the copyright holder. It is illegal to copy these images to any other system or server, or to display these images from any other site or serve ...