The Hudson River School: America’s First Great Art Movement Was About Being Outside
No school, no building, no classes — just a group of painters who looked at the American wilderness and decided it deserved a giant canvas as much as any Greek god. Meet America's first great art movement, the blockbuster paintings people paid tickets to see, and the landscapes that helped create the national parks.
Thomas Cole: The English Immigrant Who Painted America's Rise — and Its Fall
America's greatest landscape painter was an Englishman from a mill town. Meet Thomas Cole: a shop-window discovery, a self-portrait hidden inside The Oxbow, and The Course of Empire — a five-part prophecy about the country he adopted.