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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