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The Hudson River School

An 1859 oil painting called Catskill Waterfall by John Frederick Kensett.

An 1859 oil painting called Catskill Waterfall by John Frederick Kensett.

Kensett was a second-generation Hudson River school painter and engraver, a member of the Luminism movement, and a devotee of Thomas Cole.

Citation Information: Kensett, John Frederick, “Catskill Waterfall,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/047b80ad6d9f51d164e8b93585e69525.

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Courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery via ARTstor.

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Hook Mountain, Near Nyack, on the Hudson, an 1866 oil painting by Sanford Robinson Gifford.

An 1859 oil painting called Catskill Waterfall by John Frederick Kensett.

An excerpt from Proceedings at a Meeting of the Century Association, Held in Memory of John F. Kensett, December, 1872.

Santa Fe, an 1866 oil painting by Thomas Worthington Whittredge. Whittredge traveled across the US as a landscape painter.

An excerpt from a 2002 interview with a Minnesota Institute of Art curator about an exhibition of nineteenth-century landscape artists.

A 2009 poster to celebrate national forests that uses a detail of Albert Bierstadt’s 1861 painting Island Lake, Wind River Range, Wyoming.

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