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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. 🧵⤵️ The Titan's Goblet (1833) by Thomas Cole. The Hudson River School, America's first major art movement, emerged in the 1850s in New York City and was inspired by Thomas Cole.
1. The Kindred Spirits (1848) by Asher Brown Durand Image
2. Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California (1868) by Albert Bierstadt Image
3. Expulsion - Moon and Firelight (1828) by Thomas Cole Image
4. Great Canyon of the Sierras - Yosemite (1871) by Thomas Hill Image
5. Niagara, The Table Rock in Winter (1847) by Régis François Gignoux Image
6. A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (1839) by Thomas Cole Image
7. Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came (1859) by Thomas Moran Image
8. The Last of the Buffalo (1888) by Albert Bierstadt Image
9. The Voyage of Life Series (1842) by Thomas Cole

a. Childhood

b. Youth

c. Manhood

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10. Scene from "The Last of the Mohicans," Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund (1827) by Thomas Cole Image
11. A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie (1866) by Albert Bierstadt Image
12. Cotopaxi (1862) by Frederic Edwin Church Image
13. The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak (1863) by Albert Bierstadt Image
14. The Titan's Goblet (1833) by Thomas Cole Image
15. The Oxbow, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (1836) by Thomas Cole Image
16. Niagara Falls (1857) by Frederic Edwin Church Image
17. Autumn - On the Hudson River (1860) by Jasper Francis Cropsey Image
18. The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (1872) by Thomas Moran Image
19. The Beeches (1845) by Asher Brown Durand Image
20. Blue Point, Long Island (1888) by Alfred Thompson Bricher Image
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