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Jun 2, 2024, 22 tweets

The Hudson River Art Movement captured the breathtaking beauty of the American landscape.

Here are 20 essential paintings from the most renowned artists of this 19th-century movement that you need to know. 🧵⤵️

1. The Kindred Spirits (1848) by Asher Brown Durand

2. Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California (1868) by Albert Bierstadt

3. Expulsion - Moon and Firelight (1828) by Thomas Cole

4. Great Canyon of the Sierras - Yosemite (1871) by Thomas Hill

5. Niagara, The Table Rock in Winter (1847) by Régis François Gignoux

6. A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (1839) by Thomas Cole

7. Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came (1859) by Thomas Moran

8. The Last of the Buffalo (1888) by Albert Bierstadt

9. The Voyage of Life Series (1842) by Thomas Cole

a. Childhood

b. Youth

c. Manhood

d. Old Age

10. Scene from "The Last of the Mohicans," Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund (1827) by Thomas Cole

11. A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie (1866) by Albert Bierstadt

12. Cotopaxi (1862) by Frederic Edwin Church

13. The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak (1863) by Albert Bierstadt

14. The Titan's Goblet (1833) by Thomas Cole

15. The Oxbow, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (1836) by Thomas Cole

16. Niagara Falls (1857) by Frederic Edwin Church

17. Autumn - On the Hudson River (1860) by Jasper Francis Cropsey

18. The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (1872) by Thomas Moran

19. The Beeches (1845) by Asher Brown Durand

20. Blue Point, Long Island (1888) by Alfred Thompson Bricher

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