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Title
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The Hudson River School
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Description
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The Hudson River School was a group of artists from New York City that was founded by Thomas Cole. Their paintings were usually of American landscapes, but some were related to religion or of foreign landscapes. The goal of the paintings was to capture the beauty and sublimity of the landscape. Their success is correlated with an increase in tourism and vacations though not conservation. Thomas Cole himself was aware and regretted the wanton destruction of the American environment but resigned himself to the inevitability of such a cost of progress.
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Date
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1825 – 1900
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Location - Physical Location
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New York City
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Name
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Tianning Hodgkins
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cites
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Avery, Kevin J. “The Hudson River School.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/hurs/hd_hurs.htm (October 2004) Andrew Morris, HST 225 Lecture, 10/1/2025
