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19th Century Hudson River School Bucolic LandscapeCirca 1875
Circa 1875
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Beautiful example of the Hudson River School romantic bucolic New York autumn landscape with cows foraging. Illegible artist signature on stretcher bar (See enhanced images). Condition: very good; professionally cleaned and minor restoration upper right hand corner where paint was missing.
Unframed.
Image size: 14"H x 24"W x .75"D
Hudson River School was an informal association was America's first so-called school of painting and the dominant landscape style until the Civil War. The name derives from a group of 19th-century landscape painters working in New York state. With realistic composition, they depicted romantic views of unsettled areas of the Hudson River Valley especially lakes, rocky gorges, and forests in the Catskill Mountains. About a fourth of these artists utilized luminism or effects with special lighting techniques to convey lofty emotions through contrasts of light and dark. Included in this Hudson River luminist category were Washington Allston, Albert Bierstadt, William Hart, and Frederic Edwin Church.
Thomas Cole is considered the leader of the movement, which began in 1825 when other artists, including Asher Durand, discovered Cole's landscapes whose loftiness and sense of high drama suggested communication with God through nature. For Cole and later his followers, the landscape was a sacred place.
An American art journal called The Crayon, published between 1855 and 1861, reinforced the Hudson River School painters and promoted the idea that nature was a healing place for the human spirit. Hudson River painters, including Asher Durand, contributed to this publication as did men of literature such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Cullen Bryant, and James Fennimore Cooper, all of them promoting the idea that nature and God were one.
Hudson River School adherents including Asher Durand and Frederic Edwin Church often did panoramic views in a romantic, semi-realist style, with an underlying mood of serenity and contemplation. After the Civil War, Impressionism and other revolutionary styles, originating in Europe, usurped Hudson River School painters as the dominant influence on American landscape painting.
The School is credited, however, with making landscape for the first time a legitimate subject for canvas and for conveying a sense of place that was uniquely American. Although the compositional and stylistic devices were Old World---at least 36 of the Hudson River artists had been trained in European academies---the subject matter infused Americans with the confidence to turn away from European subjects to their own culture. And today, works by certain members of the Hudson River School remain strong in the market place with leaders being Martin Heade, Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, George Inness, and Albert Bierstadt.
- Creation Year:Circa 1875
- Dimensions:Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 0.75 in (1.91 cm)
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- After:John Frederick Kensett (1816-1872, American)
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- Condition:Very good, professionally cleaned and minor restoration upper right hand corner where paint was missing.
- Gallery Location:Soquel, CA
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