Hudson
River School
A group of
American landscape painters of the mid-nineteenth century, who took
a Romantic approach to depicting the Hudson River Valley, and of the
Catskill, Berkshire, and White Mountains, as well as lands further
west. As the American frontier moved westward, the Hudson River
painters' views of this expanding territory found an enthusiastic
audience. Their pictures were often brashly theatrical, embracing
moral or literary associations. See also:
Luminism
Representative
painters:
Peale,
Birch, Doughty, Durand, Cole, Eastman, Kensett, Rossiter, Whittredge,
Sonntag, Cropsey, Gifford, Inness, Church, Bierstadt, Silva, Moran