Hudson River School
American landscape painters of the mid-1800s who made wilderness their grand subject.
Section 1, north wall

Near Meadow Creek, UtahThomas Moran, July 25, 1871Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum 
The Pilgrim of the Cross at the End of His Journey (study for series, The Cross and the World)Thomas Cole, ca. 1846-1848Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum 
Gathering StormAlbert Bierstadt, (c. 1857-1858)Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution 
The ParthenonFrederic Edwin Church, 1871Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Section 1, south wall

Niagara Falls by MoonlightFrederic Edwin Church, probably 1856Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art 
Heart of the AndesFrederic Edwin Church, 1859Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Section 2, south wall

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The OxbowThomas Cole, 1836Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Italian FarmhouseFrederic Edwin Church, September 1868 - April 1869Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Section 2, north wall

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's PeakAlbert Bierstadt, 1863Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Mt. Katahdin from South Turner Mountain, MaineFrederic Edwin Church, 1877–78Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Section 3, north wall

Twilight in the WildernessFrederic Edwin Church, 1860Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art 
Mountains in ColoradoJohn Frederick Kensett, 1870Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum 
View of FlorenceThomas Cole, 1837Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Section 3, south wall

October in the MarshesJohn Frederick Kensett, 1872Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
The Aegean SeaFrederic Edwin Church, ca. 1877Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
The Tetons, Shown from the PlainThomas Moran, August 28, 1879Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum