The Hudson River School

American landscape painters working in the Northeast between 1825 and 1880 essentially span two generations. For the earliest landscape specialists like Thomas Cole and Asher Durand, nature tended to be either awe-inspiring in its ruggedness or was seen as a natural paradise to be recorded. Their best works capture American scenery with an energy and freshness as if seen for the first time.

Second generation artists such as John F. Kensett and Sanford Gifford painted a more familiar, domesticated nature typically shown in the context of work or recreation. The advantage of formal training often led this new generation of painters to interpret nature with a more sophisticated technique, differentiating themselves through individualized approaches to subject, color, and composition.

In the works of the best Hudson River School painters light, atmosphere, and the imagery of American scenery strike a chord of familiarity in all of us. This experience is heightened and made more personal through successive interpretations by the masters of The Hudson River School.

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John Woodhouse Audubon (American 1812-1862)
Colonel Abert's Squirrel, 1853

James Edward Buttersworth (American 1817-1894)
Yachts Rounding South West Spit Buoy, circa 1875

John William Casilear (American 1811-1893)
Hudson Valley Farm, 1875

Samuel Colman (American 1832-1920)
In the Highlands, circa 1868

Mauritz Frederik Hendrik De Haas (American 1832-1895)
Gloucester Harbor, circa 1880
Morning, Long Island, circa 1880

William Frederick De Haas (American 1830-1880)
Biddeford Beach, Coast of Maine, 1875
September Day at Boon Island, Coast of Maine, circa 1875
Ships At Sea, 1874

Sanford Robinson Gifford (American 1823-1880)
Foothills of the Rockies, 1870
Lake Champlain, 1860

William McDougal Hart (American 1823-1894)
White Mountain Scenery, 1864
White Mountains, circa 1870

Hermann Herzog (American 1831-1932)
The Deer Pond, Pikes County, circa 1880

John Henry Hill (American 1839-1922)
Marsh Marigolds, 1858

John William Hill (American 1812-1879)
Fawn's Leap in the Catskills, 1864
Thistles, 1864

George Inness (American 1825-1894)
Near the Delaware Water Gap, circa 1865-1866
Pastoral Scene, 1866
Pompton Junction, 1877

David Johnson (American 1827-1908)
Old Mill, West Milford, New Jersey, 1851
View of the Hudson from Barrytown, New York, 1872

Hugh Bolton Jones (American 1848-1927)
Hunters in a Fall Landscape, 1868

John Frederick Kensett (American 1816-1872)
Bash Bish Falls, circa 1860
Hudson River Looking Toward Haverstraw

Andrew Melrose (American 1836-1901)
Beach at Newport, RI

William Rickarby Miller (American 1818-1893)
Niagara Falls, 1859

William Trost Richards (American 1833-1905)
Forest Clearing, 1868
Little Good Harbor Beach, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1877

Joshua Shaw (American 1776-1861)
Sunset After a Storm, Domestic Affliction, 1838

Newbold Hough Trotter (American 1827-1898)
Startled by the Iron Horse, 1860

Dwight William Tryon (American 1849-1925)
Morning Light, 1874

Thomas Worthington Whittredge (American 1820-1910)
Roman Campagna, circa 1858-1859