Glories of the Landscape
Title: Cider Making in the Country, 1863
Artist: George Henry Durrie (American 1820-1863)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: H: 35 ¾" x W. 54" N-426.55
Permanent Collection: Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York
© New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown, New York
Photograph credit: Richard Walker
Image Courtesy: Fenimore Art Museum
The Hudson River School
Fenimore Art Museum
through December 31, 2006
Glories of the Landscape: The Hudson River School, examines the work of a group of artists whose unique style
dominated the US art scene from about 1825 to 1875, all but
replacing portraiture as the premier focus of painting in the United States.
Title: Otsego Lake Looking South from Two Mile Point, ca. 1882
Artist: Edward B. Gay (American 1837-1928)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: H: 16 ¼" x W: 26 ¼". N-380.55
Permanent Collection: Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York
Photograph credit: Richard Walker
Image Courtesy: Fenimore Art Museum
The painters, collectively known as The Hudson River School, used a Romantic approach to
depict scenes of America's wilderness, drawing inspiration from the
Hudson River Valley, the Catskills, the Berkshires and the newly
opened West. The exhibition is comprised of 15 objects from the Fenimore Art Museum's permanent collection.
Title: Emporium of Indian Curiosities, 1856
Artist: Joachim Ferdinand Richardt (American 1819-1895)
Medium: Oil on Canvas, N-279.61
Permanent Collection: Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York
Photograph credit: John Bigelow Taylor, NYC
Image Courtesy: Fenimore Art Museum
Three of the artists included in the exhibit, Thomas Cole, Thomas Doughty and Asher B. Durand were among the early practitioners of this style and they had a significant influence on the artists that followed them.
Thomas Cole was a teenager when his family emigrated from England. He was a passionate devote of the
scenery of his adopted country, the USA. Cole is considered to be the finest American landscape artist of the 19th Century.
Title: View on the Schoharie, 1826
Artist: Thomas Cole (American 1801-1848)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Courtesy: Fenimore Art Museum
Thomas Doughty was one of the first American painters to restrict himself to landscape painting as his genre. Some consider him the catalyst for the Hudson River School given he was the one who recognized early on the magnificent subject matter offered within the American countryside.
Asher B. Durand's early career was as an engraver. When he began to paint it was as first a portraitist before turning
his attention to nature. Cole was a major inspiration upon him.
Title: Cooperstown from Three Mile Point, ca. 1850
Artists: Louis Remy Mignot (1831-1870) & Julius Gollmann (-1898)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: H: 27 ¼" x 39 ½",N-146.71
Permanent Collection: Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York
Copyright, New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown, NY
Photograph credit: Richard Walker
Image Courtesy: Fenimore Art Museum
Like the Impressionists of France who sketched en plein air, and the Group of Seven in Canada who
went to the wilderness for inspiration; so to did the Hudson River School artists. The work of all of these
individual groups celebrated nature at its most realistic.
Title: Otsego Lake Looking North from Two Mile Point, ca. 1883
Artist: Edward B. Gay (American 1837-1928)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: H: 17 1/8" x W 27 ¼", N-379.55
Permanent Collection: Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York
Copyright, New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown, NY
Photograph credit: Richard Walker
Image Courtesy: Fenimore Art Museum
The Hudson River School looked into the conflict between modernity and nature as
well as the effects of increasing industrialization and westward expansion.
Glories of the Landscape: The Hudson River School
Fenimore Art Museum:
through December 31, 2006
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