The Hudson River School : nature and the American vision / New-York Historical Society, Linda S. Ferber.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: New-York Historical Society
Other Authors: Ferber, Linda S.
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Skira Rizzoli, [2009], ©2009.
Subjects:
Hudson River school of landscape painting.
Landscape painting, American > 19th century.
Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) > In art.
New-York Historical Society > Art collections.
Genre:
In art.
Physical Description:220 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 x 29 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • River views and rural retreats : New York, city on a river ; Up the river, New York harbor to the Erie Canal ; The Hudson on paper
  • America's favorite river, on canvas
  • The American Grand Tour : The Catskills ; Lake George and the Adirondack Mountains ; The White Mountains and New England ; Niagara Falls
  • American artists afield : Artist explorers of the West ; The Arctic ; South America
  • The Old World, Europe, and The course of empire : Dream of Arcadia, Americans in Italy ; Thomas Cole's The course of empire
  • Epilogue : a brief history of the museum collection.