Hudson River School

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

27 works. We group works by maker, place and date; museums file them in their own ways.

Walk the Hudson River School gallery

View near Newport

John Frederick Kensett, 1860s

View of Florence

Thomas Cole, 1837

Twilight in the Wilderness

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak

Albert Bierstadt, 1863

The Aegean Sea

Frederic Edwin Church, ca. 1877

Heart of the Andes

Frederic Edwin Church, 1859

The Parthenon

Frederic Edwin Church, 1871

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow

Thomas Cole, 1836

The Valley of Wyoming

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1865

Eaton's Neck, Long Island

John Frederick Kensett, 1872

Lake George

John Frederick Kensett, 1869

October in the Marshes

John Frederick Kensett, 1872

Landing at Sabbath Day Point

John Frederick Kensett, c. 1853

Warwick Castle, England

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1857

Gathering Storm

Albert Bierstadt, (c. 1857-1858)

Above Tower Falls, Yellowstone

Thomas Moran, 1872

The Pilgrim of the Cross at the End of His Journey (study for series, The Cross and the World)

Thomas Cole, ca. 1846-1848

Mountains in Colorado

John Frederick Kensett, 1870

Near Ariccia, Italy

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1868

Niagara Falls by Moonlight

Frederic Edwin Church, probably 1856

Minerva Terrace, Yellowstone

Thomas Moran, 1872

American Plains with Mountain Range in the Distance

Thomas Moran, before 1872

The Tetons, Shown from the Plain

Thomas Moran, August 28, 1879

Near Meadow Creek, Utah

Thomas Moran, July 25, 1871

Italian Farmhouse

Frederic Edwin Church, September 1868 - April 1869

Mt. Katahdin from South Turner Mountain, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1877–78

Century Plant, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, May–September 1865