# Hudson River School

Style galleries · hang 748 · 27 works

American landscape painters of the mid-1800s who made wilderness their grand subject.

The rooms are imagined; every work on their walls is real.

## Section 1, north wall

1. [View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/view-from-mount-holyoke-northampton-massachusetts-after-a-th-met-10497), Thomas Cole, 1836. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/hudson-river-school/view-from-mount-holyoke-northampton-massachusetts-after-a-th-met-10497?hang=748)
2. [American Plains with Mountain Range in the Distance](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/american-plains-with-mountain-range-in-the-distance-si-chndm-1917-17-15-a), Thomas Moran, before 1872. Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/hudson-river-school/american-plains-with-mountain-range-in-the-distance-si-chndm-1917-17-15-a?hang=748)

## Section 1, south wall

3. [Lake George](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/lake-george-met-11311), John Frederick Kensett, 1869. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/hudson-river-school/lake-george-met-11311?hang=748)
4. [Heart of the Andes](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/heart-of-the-andes-met-10481), Frederic Edwin Church, 1859. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/hudson-river-school/heart-of-the-andes-met-10481?hang=748)

## Section 2, south wall

5. [Mt. Katahdin from South Turner Mountain, Maine](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/mt-katahdin-from-south-turner-mountain-maine-si-chndm-1917-4-630-a), Frederic Edwin Church, 1877–78. Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/hudson-river-school/mt-katahdin-from-south-turner-mountain-maine-si-chndm-1917-4-630-a?hang=748)
6. [Twilight in the Wilderness](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/twilight-in-the-wilderness-cma-141639), Frederic Edwin Church, 1860. Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/hudson-river-school/twilight-in-the-wilderness-cma-141639?hang=748)

## Section 2, north wall

7. [The Aegean Sea](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-aegean-sea-met-10480), Frederic Edwin Church, ca. 1877. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/hudson-river-school/the-aegean-sea-met-10480?hang=748)
8. [Above Tower Falls, Yellowstone](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/above-tower-falls-yellowstone-si-saam-1958-5-3), Thomas Moran, 1872. Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/hudson-river-school/above-tower-falls-yellowstone-si-saam-1958-5-3?hang=748)
9. [The Pilgrim of the Cross at the End of His Journey (study for series, The Cross and the World)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-pilgrim-of-the-cross-at-the-end-of-his-journey-study-for-si-saam-1965-10), Thomas Cole, ca. 1846-1848. Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/hudson-river-school/the-pilgrim-of-the-cross-at-the-end-of-his-journey-study-for-si-saam-1965-10?hang=748)

## Section 3, north wall

10. [The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-rocky-mountains-lander-s-peak-met-10154), Albert Bierstadt, 1863. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/hudson-river-school/the-rocky-mountains-lander-s-peak-met-10154?hang=748)
11. [Gathering Storm](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/gathering-storm-si-hmsg-66-503), Albert Bierstadt, (c. 1857-1858). Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/hudson-river-school/gathering-storm-si-hmsg-66-503?hang=748)

## Section 3, south wall

12. [The Parthenon](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-parthenon-met-10482), Frederic Edwin Church, 1871. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/hudson-river-school/the-parthenon-met-10482?hang=748)
13. [Minerva Terrace, Yellowstone](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/minerva-terrace-yellowstone-nga-156720), Thomas Moran, 1872. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/hudson-river-school/minerva-terrace-yellowstone-nga-156720?hang=748)
14. [The Tetons, Shown from the Plain](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-tetons-shown-from-the-plain-si-chndm-1917-17-65), Thomas Moran, August 28, 1879. Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/hudson-river-school/the-tetons-shown-from-the-plain-si-chndm-1917-17-65?hang=748)

## Section 4, south wall

15. [Near Meadow Creek, Utah](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/near-meadow-creek-utah-si-chndm-1917-17-8), Thomas Moran, July 25, 1871. Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/hudson-river-school/near-meadow-creek-utah-si-chndm-1917-17-8?hang=748)
16. [Near Ariccia, Italy](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/near-ariccia-italy-si-saam-2020-20-106), Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1868. Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/hudson-river-school/near-ariccia-italy-si-saam-2020-20-106?hang=748)

## Doors

- [Sanford Robinson Gifford's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-sanford-robinson-gifford?hang=748&via=continue) (8 works)
- [The 19th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/19?hang=748&via=continue) (731 works)
- [Hudson River School, room 2](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/hudson-river-school?hang=748&cursor=eyJvIjoxNiwiaCI6NzQ4LCJpIjpudWxsLCJnIjoia1lPT19jVjAifQ)