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Title
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View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm
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Description
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This awe-inspiring painting depicts a dramatic rendition of Hoffman (Schroon) Mountain after a storm. It includes eye-catching fall foliage, dramatic clouds, distant rain, and two Native American men in the bottom right corner. This painting was created by Thomas Cole and is part of the Hudson River School art movement, which was most influential in the mid-1800s. Artists who took part in this movement tended to paint the northeast landscapes of the United States with a focus on the dramatic beauty and grandeur of the American natural world. Many prominent members of the movement, including Cole, interacted with authors who belonged to the transcendentalist movement. Both movements had ties to American nationalism and looked back to a time before the technological developments of the 1800s while romanticizing the wilderness. In their celebrations of idealized natural spaces, the artists and writers of the Hudson River School and the transcendentalist movement influenced the very beginning of American conservation efforts.
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Date
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1838 – 1838
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Location - Physical Location
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Schroon, NY 12870
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Name
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Dorothea DeMarle
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cites
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Cole, Thomas. View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm 1838, The Cleveland Museum Of Art, Cleveland.
