The Hudson River School is a designation given to artists working between 1825 and 1875 whose paintings convey an immense reverence for nature in all its grandeur. This exhibition includes masterpieces by Cole, Durand, Church, Heade, Cropsey, and others.
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art is home to numerous works of the Hudson River School, a designation given to artists working between 1825 and 1875, whose paintings convey an immense reverence for nature in all its grandeur. The father of the movement was Thomas Cole, who with Asher B. Durand and others painted breathtaking views of the Catskill Mountains and Hudson River Valley in upstate New York. To Cole and his followers, the primeval wilderness, a metaphor for a new Eden, was a symbol of the promise of America. This exhibition of fifty-five works includes masterpieces by Cole, Durand, Frederic Edwin Church, Martin Johnson Heade, Jasper Cropsey, and other artists associated with the Hudson River School.
