What was the focus of the Hudson River School? Artists in the Hudson River School primarily painted landscapes. Most of the artists painted scenes from New York and New England, but some traveled west and painted the Rocky Mountains and Yosemite. The Hudson River School paintings showcased the ...
One such work-and one that gained him international fame-was the large painting entitled Miagara. Unlike many of the other members of the Hudson River School, Church did not remain in that region for the maiority of his career as an artist. He painted landscapes of scenes he viewed in ...
an American landscape artist belonging to the Hudson River School. Casilear was born in New York City. His first professional training was under prominent New York engraver Peter Maverick in the 1820s, then with Asher Durand, himself an engraver at the time. Casilear and Durand became friends...
I live and work in New York’s Hudson Valley, an area notable for its historic Hudson River school paintings, jammed with squeaky-clean realism, macho colonialism and epically lush views. My small landscape colors studies are unabashedly romantic and dazzling color studies of places mostly ...
She took art classes at New Rochelle Public High School and painted during the summer in Dover Plains, New York. During World War 1, she briefly studied nursing but decided that painting was more for her. She attended the Art Students League of New York from 1918 to 1922 under instruction...
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I still like to use the language of painting. I haven’t painted in quite a long time though. After I left Yancey Richardson Gallery in 2009, I was primarily writing and curating and from that came Republic Worldwide, followed by The Lodge Gallery after Keith and I finally met. I feel...
In the United States the Hudson River school (1825–70) painters were centred in the Hudson River valley in New York. In paintings of the Catskill Mountains, the Hudson River, and the wilderness of New England and beyond, the artists captured dramatic effects of light and shade, the finest...
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from fellow Hudson River painters who tended to embrace Romantic, idealized landscapes. In the 1870s, Richards painted some of his most famous scenes of the White Mountains and, despite his departure from the techniques used by the Hudson School, Richards’s work was well-received. He drew ...