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Hudson River School Paintings

HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL STYLE

Considered the first major American painting movement, the Hudson River School emerged in the first half of the 19th century with landscape paintings that celebrated the young country’s natural beauty. Most of its leading painters were based in New York City where they exchanged ideas and traveled to the nearby Hudson River Valley and Catskills Mountains to re-create their vistas. At a time when the city was increasingly dense, the Hudson River School artists extolled the vast and pristine qualities of the American landscape, a sentiment that would inform the conservation movement.

American art was dominated by portraiture and historical scenes before Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, began painting the Catskill Mountains in 1825. While the Hudson River School was informed by European art aesthetics, particularly the British focus on the sublime in nature, it was a style imbued with nationalism. The landscape painters who followed and studied under Cole would expand their focus from the Northeastern United States to places across the country, their work shared through prints and portfolios promoting an appreciation for the American wilderness — Niagara Falls, the mountain ranges that dot the American West and more — as the style blossomed during the mid-19th century.

Cole’s student Frederic Edwin Church as well as painters such as Albert Bierstadt, John Frederick Kensett, Asher Brown Durand and others became prominent proponents of the Hudson River School. The American art movement also had close ties to the literary world, including to authors like William Cullen Bryant, Henry David Thoreau and James Fenimore Cooper who wrote on similar themes. Although by the early 1900s the style had waned, and modernism would soon guide the following decades of art in the United States, the Hudson River School received renewed interest in the late 20th century for the dramatic way its artists portrayed the world.

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Style: Hudson River School
Antique American School Impressionist Forest Interior Giltwood Frame Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 11L x 9H.
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1890s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Greek Ruins"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Lower Right Known for his marine, history, and portrait paintings, Franklin Briscoe was born in Baltimore, Maryland and at age four moved with his family to Philadelphia where he later became a student of Edward Moran and where eventually he settled his studio. Briscoe made extended ocean voyages, including trips to Europe where he saw much painting in galleries, and from these adventures and observations developed his landmark paintings of the ocean and ships in all kinds of weather conditions. In 1885, he painted an historical mural that was in ten panels, a total of 230 feet long, and 13 feet tall--"The Battle of Gettysburg...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Signed American Impressionist Framed Panoramic Blazing Sunset Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
An antique American oil painting in its original period frame. This tonalist work features a stunning luminescent quality of the sun reflecting off a lake surrounded by trees. Thi...
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1890s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Early 20th Century Hudson River School Autumnal Lake Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous Hudson River School style autumnal landscape of California Sierra lake with oaks and evergreen trees with shrubs turning red and orange hues. S...
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Early 20th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Antique American Impressionist Niagara Falls Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape of Niagara Falls. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Framed.
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Early 1900s Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Jamestown, Virginia Landscape
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
John A Mooney is a Virginian artist who has been known to paint trompe loeil and landscape paintings. Born in Buffalo, New York, John A. Mooney (1843-1918) traveled to Georgia to enl...
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Early 20th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Ocean Landscape of Sailing off the Coast
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This coastal landscape is done by the famed painted William Frederick De Haas (1830-1880). This painting shows two men in a canoe paddling off the cliff shore in the foreground with ...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sunset Boating Landscape
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Paul Weber was a German born artist that painted beautiful American Landscapes. He exhibited his works in New England, specifically Philadelphia and Boston. After his famed period of...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Livestock Landscape
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven, a luminary of 19th-century Belgian art, wielded his brush with unparalleled mastery, capturing the timeless allure of pastoral landscapes and noble anim...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Grand Manan" Harrison Bird Brown, Maine Landscape, Hudson River School Seascape
Located in New York, NY
Harrison Bird Brown (1831 - 1915) Grand Manan Oil on canvas 12 x 20 inches Signed with initials lower left Harrison Bird Brown was born in 1831 in Portland, Maine, and is best known for his White Mountain landscapes and marine paintings of Maine's Casco Bay...
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Impressionist Hudson River School Coastal Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique impressionist painting of a coastal seascape. Oil on canvas, circa 1900. Signed illegibly. Framed. Image size, 18L x 12H.
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1890s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Romantic American School Fall Forest Interior Impressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist fall forest oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Finely painted and housed in a period giltwood frame.
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1890s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"North Conway Farm, " Edward Hill, White Mountain School Antique Landscape View
By Edward Hill
Located in New York, NY
Edward Hill (1843 - 1923) Haying at a North Conway Farm with Mount Washington in the Distance, New Hampshire Oil on canvas 13 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Private Collection, Dallas, Texas Born in Wolverhampton, England in 1843, Edward Hill was the ninth of ten children. Though ultimately less well known than his older brother Thomas Hill (1829-1908), Edward was a productive painter in oil and watercolor for more than sixty years, producing images of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, southern genre scenes, still-life paintings, portraits, American Indian pictures...
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Transcend, Abstract Landscape, Hudson River School Yellow, Brown
Located in Riverdale, NY
Transcend is an abstracted landscape, oil on canvas, 28x38. In Sharon Gordon's landscapes, you can feel her deep connection and passion for the ever-changing nature of large bodie...
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2010s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19th Century Hudson River School Landscape after Richard Goodwin
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming Hudson River school antique oil painting of a sailboat on a lake, circa 1880-90. Signed "R. Labarr." after Richard LaBarre Goodwin...
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1880s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American School Impressionist Sunset Hudson River School Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American Hudson River School sunset landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1874. Signed in monogram. Housed in a giltwood frame. Image size, 30L x 22H.
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1870s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

African American Cotton field Southern Caronlina Painting, Woman w/ Pipe
By William Aiken Walker
Located in New York, NY
Up for sale is a wonderful 19th C painting by William Aiken Walker (1838 - 1921) Depicts a Soutjern Carolina Lady with a pipe in her mouth, with a vivid cotton bush in front of her....
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1860s Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil

"White House and Trees, " John Frederick Kensett, Hudson River School, New Jersey
Located in New York, NY
John Frederick Kensett White House and Trees, circa 1853 Oil and gouache on paper 6 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches Provenance: Estate of Vincent Colyer (1824 - 1888) By descent Paul Magriel Collection Private Collection, Long Island Exhibited: New York, The Finch College Museum of Art; Southampton, New York, The Parrish Art Museum; New Orleans, Louisiana, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art; Norfolk, Virginia, Norfolk Museum of Art; Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum; New London, Connecticut, Lyman Allyn Museum; Manchester, New Hampshire, The Currier Gallery of Art; Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design; Youngstown, Ohio, The Butler Institute of American Art, American Drawings (Benjamin West to the present) from the Paul Magriel Collection, June 1961 - December 1962. Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, April 14 - May 15, 1963. Boston International Fine Art Show at the Cyclorama, Lincoln Glenn, October 19 - 23, 2022. In the 1850s through 1860, John Frederick Kensett, painted a series of at least five landscapes of the "Shrewsbury River" (now the Navesink River) along the New Jersey shore. Art historians have described Kensett’s paintings of the river as having evolved from a trip in the fall of 1853 at the invitation of Kensett's friend, author and lecturer George Curtis. However, letters viewable at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art website make it clear that Kensett had become acquainted with the area over a year earlier, most likely in connection with fellow artist and friend Thomas Prichard Rossiter. Kensett and Rossiter had been friends since at least the 1830s. As aspiring artists, they had traveled to Europe together in the 1840s. In 1851 Rossiter married Anna Ehrick Parmly, then in her early 20s, and Kensett attended the wedding. Anna was one of four daughters of Eleazer and Anna Maria Parmly. Eleazer, one of the major figures in American dentistry history, was a wealthy and accomplished member of New York society. When not in the city, the Parmly family gathered at Bingham Place, a sprawling estate on 275 pastoral acres spanning the peninsula between the Shrewsbury and Navesink Rivers along the New Jersey shore. The Bingham Place estate encompassed much of what is now Rumson, then known as Oceanic, N.J. It was a wide-open landscape of ocean views, orchards, lawns, and cattle-dotted pastures. There the Parmlys opened their doors to family, friends, and the summer breeze. Rossiter, newly-married into the Parmly family, was likely the reason that Kensett paid a social visit to Bingham Place in the summer of 1852. On July 11, 1852, having reluctantly departed, Kensett wrote Rossiter who was still at Bingham Place: New York to me now is that of a deserted place…marking a dismal contrast to the green lawns at Bingham Place. I saw the receding shores of Shrewsbury & the line of dust which marked your homeward course & finally the last glimpse of the Locust trees that shade the pleasant mansion & happy inmates at Bingham with any thing but a joyous spirit. A major figure in the American luminist tradition and one of the most renowned painters of the Civil War era, John Frederick Kensett was born in Cheshire, Connecticut, in 1816. He was the son of Thomas Kensett, a British immigrant engraver, and it was in his father's New Haven firm that Kensett first learned to draw. After mastering the rudiments of the graphic arts, he worked as an engraver in print shops in New Haven, Albany, and New York throughout the 1830's. During this period, he began to paint on his own, encouraged by a friend and fellow artist, John W. Casilear. In 1838, he made his first submission, a landscape, to the annual exhibitions of the National Academy of Design. Desirous of continuing his training, Kensett traveled to Europe in 1840. For the next seven years, often in the company of artists such as Casilear and Asher B...
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1850s Hudson River School Paintings

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Paper, Oil

"Water Stop" Thomas Hill, Hudson River School Landscape with Horses and Road
By Thomas Hill
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Hill Water Stop, 1853 Signed and dated lower left Oil on canvas 14 x 20 inches Provenance: Arader Galleries, New York Immigrating from England ...
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1850s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Hudson River School Panoramic Vista View Oil On Paper Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American Hudson River School panoramic landscape oil painting. Oil on paper. Framed. Apparently unsigned. Image size, 13L x 8.5H.
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1870s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Sunset Landscape Hudson River School Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Important framed 19th century Hudson River School landscape. Possibly estate stamped. Housed in an impressive period frame. Oil on canvas.
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1860s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Turn of Century Yellowstone Falls Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Substantial and period painting of Yellowstone Falls by an unknown artist (American, 19th-20th Century), c.1880-1898. Unsigned. With a plaque "Yellow...
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1890s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Early Antique American School New England Sunset Sailboat Marine Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Up for sale here is a really impressive mid 19th century painting. Very fine quality and great color! Unsigned. Framed. Image size, 13 by 17.
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1850s Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Western Lake Landscape, " John Fery, Hudson River School View
By John Fery
Located in New York, NY
John Fery (1859 - 1934) Western Lake Landscape, circa 1920 Oil on canvas 21 x 23 1/4 inches Signed lower left Provenance: Private Collection, New York Born in Austria, John Fery earned a strong reputation for dramatic paintings of western mountain landscape in the United States. Glacier National Park in northwest Montana was a popular subject for him. He was raised in a prominent, wealthy family that lived on an estate about nineteen miles northeast of Salzburg. His mother was Hungarian, and his father was born in Bohemia. S ome sources have written that he studied art in Dusseldorf, Germany with Peter Jansen, and also in Munich, Venice and Karlsruhe. But his "name does not appear in the records of the major art schools in any of these places, nor is there any record of his name at either the Vienna or Budapest academies." (Merrill 26) It is possible, however, that he received private instruction, and because of the sophistication of his painting, sources think it unlikely that he was self taught. An early interest in wilderness scenery led him to painting American landscapes and hunting scenes. In the mid 1880s, he came to America and lived in the German community in Milwaukee, and then in 1886, brought his family to the United States. His wife, Mary Rose Kraemer (1862-1940), was born in Switzerland, and they had one child born near Munich and two others born in the United States. From 1886 to 1888, they lived in New York, and by 1890, Fery had made his first trip West. He visited Yellowstone Park in 1891, and indicated in his writings that he had been there even earlier. From 1892 to 1893, he led European nobility on hunting expeditions to the American Northwest, made possible by the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad...
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1920s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Hudson River School Colosseum Italian Oil Painting Landscape
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American Hudson River School artist working in Italy. Oil on canvas. Framed nicely. No signature found.
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1860s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19th C New Jersey Surfmen Rescuing Foundering Ship - GW Nicholson
Located in Exton, PA
Fine late 19th C oil painting on cradled wood panel by George Washington Nicholson. The painting is in very good cleaned condition and shows Surfmen rescuing a ship in distress. This...
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1870s Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil

Hudson River School Style Painting, Signed Brundell
Located in Larchmont, NY
G. Brundell Untitled, c. Early 20th Century Oil on canvas Sight: 10 x 18 in. Framed: 20 x 27 7/8 x 2 in.
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Early 20th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hudson River School Style Painting, Signed Brundell
Located in Larchmont, NY
G. Brundell Untitled, c. Early 20th Century Oil on canvas Sight: 10 x 18 in. Framed: 19 7/8 x 27 7/8 x 2 in. Signed lower left
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Early 20th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

[Mount Washington Winter Scene]
Located in Boston, MA
Signed and dated lower left: "SW Griggs 73". In fine condition.
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1870s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Native American Encampment, western scene
By Harvey Otis Young
Located in Greenwich, CT
This rare and impressive depiction of a white capped mountain and Indian encampment from the 1870's is a great image for a library or rustic room. Exquisitely painted, Young focused...
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1870s Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Chapel of the Madonna di Vitaleta, original realist Italian landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
This original Hudson River School realist interpretation of the Chapel of the Madonna di Vitela, still standing in exceedingly picturesque Tuscany invites you into the heart of one ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil

Sunset Landscape, 1868
Located in New York, NY
F. Alexander Wust paints a stellar sunset over a hillside with light red color in his artwork entitled, “Sunset Landscape.”
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Summer on the Delaware
Located in New York, NY
Hermann Herzog paints a beautiful mountainside landscape with a house set into the incline in his work entitled, “Summer on the Delaware.”
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Reminiscence of Vermont, ca. 1860–1870
Located in New York, NY
In this detailed and colorful rendering of a Vermont countryside entitled “Reminiscence of Vermont,” William Hart paints two figures walking along a stream
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Board

Under the Palisades, 1899
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Francis Cropsey paints a view out from the Palisades onto the Hudson River in his artwork entitled, “Under the Palisades.”
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Bay of New York at Sunrise, 1875
Located in New York, NY
Edward Moran paints a scenic coastal scene of ships setting out into the Bay of New York at the beginning of day in his artwork entitled, “ Bay of New York at Sunrise”
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Board

1880s Original Hudson River School Landscape -- Sunset Through The Forest
By Charles Russell Loomis
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful Hudson River School Original gouache autumnal landscape of vivid sunset through forest by Charles Russell Loomis (American 1857 - 1936), circa 1880. Warm and cool tones wit...
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1880s Hudson River School Paintings

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Gouache, Paper, Cardboard

A Mountain Trail, Colorado, 1868
Located in New York, NY
Worthington Whittredge paints an iconic scene of the burgeoning West of the United States, specifically Colorado, in his artwork entitled, “A Mountain Trail, Colorado.”
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sunset Glow, Roman Campagna
Located in New York, NY
William Stanley Haseltine paints a beautiful river landscape in Roman Campagna at the end of day in his artwork entitled, “Sunset Glow, Roman Campagna.”
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hunter and Canoe
Located in New York, NY
Hermann Herzog depicts a stunning view of a figure preparing a fire in a grassy field with snow-capped mountains in the distance in his work entitled, “Hunter and Canoe.”
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Board

Highlands Tracks
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Framed drawing with a choice of black or white frame (please write a message to seller of your preferred frame color). Mat opening, width: 11 1/2 " - Mat opening, height: 15 ¼ " Fram...
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1990s Hudson River School Paintings

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Charcoal, Laid Paper, Graphite

Hikers at the Highlands No.2
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Framed drawing with a choice of black or white frame (please write a message to seller of your preferred frame color). Mat opening, width: 11 1/2 " - Mat opening, height: 15 ¼ " Fram...
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1990s Hudson River School Paintings

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Laid Paper, Pencil, Graphite

Hikers at the Highlands No.3
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Framed drawing with a choice of black or white frame (please write a message to seller of your preferred frame color). Mat opening, width: 11 1/2 " - Mat opening, height: 15 ¼ " Fram...
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1990s Hudson River School Paintings

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Laid Paper, Pencil, Graphite

Hudson River Landscape, 1865 by Johann Hermann Carmiencke (American, 1810-1867)
By Johann Hermann Carmiencke
Located in New York, NY
Painted by Hudson River School artist Johann Hermann Carmiencke, "Hudson River Landscape" 1865 is oil on canvas, measures 12 x 18 inches, and is signed and dated 1865 at the lower ri...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Anglers on an Adirondack Lake by Ernest Parton (American, 1845-1933)
Located in New York, NY
Hudson River School artist Ernest Parton's (1845-1933) "Anglers on an Adirondack Lake" is oil on canvas, measures 10 x 20 inches, and is signed and dated 1871 at the lower left. The ...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sandy Beach, Cohasset, 1860
By Winckworth Allan Gay
Located in New York, NY
Winckworth Allan Gay paints a scenic coastal scene from an elevated perspective overlooking a wave-filled beach below in his work entitled, “Sandy Beach, Cohasset.”
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Oil Landscape of Horizon at Sunset
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Franklin Stanwood was born in Portland Maine and was raised by a captain. He was very self taught as he began his painting journey and practiced many di...
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Board, Oil

Shawangunk Mountains by Lemuel Maynard Wiles (American, 1826-1905)
Located in New York, NY
Shawangunk Mountains [View from top of Granit Road Looking Southeast] by Hudson River School artist Lemuel Maynard Wiles (1826-1905) is oil on can...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

In the Sierras by Historic Woman Artist Kate W. Newhall (American, 1840-1917)
Located in New York, NY
Historic woman artist Kate W. Newhall's painting "In the Sierras" is oil on panel, measures 7 x 11 inches, and is signed at the lower left. The work is framed in an elegant, period a...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Summer along the Boquet River, 1875 by Julie Hart Beers (American, 1835-1913)
By Julie Hart Beers
Located in New York, NY
Painted by Hudson River School artist Julie Hart Beers (1835-1913), "Summer along the Boquet River" is oil on canvas and measures 9 x 11 inches. It is signed and dated 1875 at the lo...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Spring Thaw (Hudson River School Style Landscape Pastel Drawing, Gold Frame)
Located in Hudson, NY
Hudson River School inspired landscape in oil pastel of a countryside sunset "Spring Thaw" by Judy Reynolds 24 x 36 inches, 30 x 43 inches framed Signed, lower left This landscape ...
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2010s Hudson River School Paintings

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Pastel, Paper

Scene in the White Mountains by Alfred Thompson Bricher (American, 1837-1908)
Located in New York, NY
Painted by Hudson River School artist Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837-1908) , "Scene in the White Mountains" is oil on panel, measures 5.5 x 9.75 inches, and is signed and dated 1864 a...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Seascape by George Herbert McCord (American, 1848-1909)
Located in New York, NY
"Seascape," by Hudson River School artist George Herbert McCord (1848-1909) is oil on canvas and measures 18.07 x 30.13 inches. The work which comes from a private collection in Birmingham, Alabama is signed “G.H. McCord A.N.A.” at the lower left. The work is framed in a beautiful, period appropriate frame, and ready to hang. A member of the second generation of Hudson River School painters, George Herbert McCord is known for his atmospheric landscape and marine paintings which capture a variety of locales and are executed in a variety of media—including oil, pastel, and watercolor. McCord was born in 1848 in New York City, where he lived and worked his entire life. After 1883, he kept an additional studio in Morristown, NJ. McCord traveled throughout North America, painting in the Berkshire, Adirondack and Laurentian mountain ranges, the Hudson River Valley, the Coast of New England, the Upper Mississippi, and Florida, which had become popular among Eastern vacationers. He was among a select group of artists commissioned by the Santa Fe Railroad to paint the Grand Canyon, and also participated in a special painting excursion to the Erie Canal. His travels in Europe were equally expansive, taking him to England, Scotland (having been commissioned by Andrew Carnegie to paint the scenery around his castle there), France, the Netherlands, and Italy. McCord was well-educated, having attended Claverack College amidst the Catskills in Claverack, NY, which provided instruction in classical, French, German, English, music, painting, military, commercial, telegraphic and agricultural studies. He also studied with the accomplished painter and inventor of Morse code, Samuel F.B. Morse, and with the Scottishborn landscape painter, James Fairman. McCord was active in numerous art clubs and institutions in New York, including the National Academy of Design, which elected him an Associate member in 1880, the American Watercolor Society, the Brooklyn Art...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Bass Lake, 1876 by Robert Spear Dunning (American, 1829-1905)
By Robert Spear Dunning
Located in New York, NY
Painted by Hudson River School artist Robert Spear Dunning (1829-1905) , "Bass Lake" 1876 is oil on board, measures 6.5 x 11.5 inches, and is signed, titled, and dated 1876 on the ve...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Board

Full Sail at Twilight by Hudson River School Artist J.B. Bristol (1826–1909)
By John Bunyan Bristol
Located in New York, NY
Painted by Hudson River School artist J.B. Bristol (1826–1909), "Full Sail at Twilight" is oil on canvas, measures 12 x 18 1/8 inches, and is signed at the lower right. The work is f...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Highlands - Hudson River from West Point by Thomas B. Pope (American, 1834-1891)
Located in New York, NY
Painted by Hudson River School artist Thomas Benjamin Pope (1834–1891), "Highlands - Hudson River from West Point Looking North" is oil on canvas ...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Board

Sunset on the Hudson River by Hermann Simon (American, 1846-1895)
Located in New York, NY
Painted by Hudson River School artist Hermann Simon (1846-1895) , "Sunset on the Hudson River" is oil on canvas, measures 15 x 25 inches, and is signed and dated 1875 at the lower ri...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19th Century Hudson River School Bucolic Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
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). Conditi...
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1870s Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Linen

Hudson River School paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Hudson River School paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Ralph Albert Blakelock, Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Jasper Francis Cropsey, and John Frederick Kensett. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Hudson River School paintings, so small editions measuring 4 inches across are also available. Prices for paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $400 and tops out at $875,000, while the average work sells for $14,933.

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