Hudson River School At Wadsworth Atheneum

The majestic paintings of the 19th-century Hudson River School enjoy tremendous popularity today because of their Romantic and often highly dramatic depiction of nature. They are exquisite pieces of art made all the more beautiful when one considers the technical skills involved in rendering them.

America’s first national school of landscape painting, it was essentially founded by the English-born Thomas Cole (1801-1848), who regarded America as “the new Eden” and painted it as such. Cole produced many of his visionary, panoramic landscapes and architectural fantasies as allegories of human experience, often imbuing them with religious overtones in tune with the public spirit of his time.

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