Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL STYLE
Considered the first major American painting movement, the Hudson River School emerged in the first half of the 19th century with landscape paintings that celebrated the young country’s natural beauty. Most of its leading painters were based in New York City where they exchanged ideas and traveled to the nearby Hudson River Valley and Catskills Mountains to re-create their vistas. At a time when the city was increasingly dense, the Hudson River School artists extolled the vast and pristine qualities of the American landscape, a sentiment that would inform the conservation movement.
American art was dominated by portraiture and historical scenes before Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, began painting the Catskill Mountains in 1825. While the Hudson River School was informed by European art aesthetics, particularly the British focus on the sublime in nature, it was a style imbued with nationalism. The landscape painters who followed and studied under Cole would expand their focus from the Northeastern United States to places across the country, their work shared through prints and portfolios promoting an appreciation for the American wilderness — Niagara Falls, the mountain ranges that dot the American West and more — as the style blossomed during the mid-19th century.
Cole’s student Frederic Edwin Church as well as painters such as Albert Bierstadt, John Frederick Kensett, Asher Brown Durand and others became prominent proponents of the Hudson River School. The American art movement also had close ties to the literary world, including to authors like William Cullen Bryant, Henry David Thoreau and James Fenimore Cooper who wrote on similar themes. Although by the early 1900s the style had waned, and modernism would soon guide the following decades of art in the United States, the Hudson River School received renewed interest in the late 20th century for the dramatic way its artists portrayed the world.
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Style: Hudson River School
"Hubbard Park, Crescent City, Florida" George Frederick Morse, Landscape
Located in New York, NY
George Frederick Morse
Hubbard Park, Crescent City, Florida, 1906
Oil on canvas
17 x 12 inches
A landscape and marine painter from Portland, Maine, George Morse was a founding membe...
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Early 1900s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,200 Sale Price
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Pleasant Thoughts oil painting by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait
Located in Hudson, NY
This painting is listed in the W.H. Cadbury and H.F. Marsh book Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait: Artist in the Adirondacks, Newark, Delaware, 1986, no.59.36t. It is hand-signed "AF Tait...
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1850s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil on Wood Landscape of Fort Nathan Hale, Black Rock Fort, CT
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This Oil on Wood American Landscape painting is done by John Mackie Falconer (1820-1903) and is signed center left. The scene is of New Haven Connecticut l...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Oil River Landscape
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This 19th-century American School river landscape painting by an unknown artist embodies the essence of the era’s reverence for nature and the burgeoning national identity. These wor...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Fishing Along the Meder River at the edge of Vic, Spain
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Samuel Coleman's "Fishing Along the Meder River at the Edge of Vic, Spain" is a captivating painting that beautifully captures both the charm of the riverside, and the beauty of the ...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Watercolor of Natural Bridge, VA
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Régis Francois Gignoux was a distinguished nineteenth-century artist whose work illuminated the sublime aspects of the American landscape. He was born in Lyon, France and trained at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where his instructor, the history painter Paul-Hipployte Delaroche, encouraged his interest in landscape painting. He traveled to the United States in 1840, and immediately showed interest in American Landscapes. He immediately settled in New York and painted many well known sites of the United States: Niagara Falls, the Catskill Mountains, Mount Washington, and Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. He is most famous for his winter scenes, but shows beautiful landscapes year round. Gignoux quickly established himself within the leading Hudson River School circles of the time. He took sketching trips with Frederic Church and John Frederick Kensett. Today, his paintings are in the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the New York Historical Society, and the Georgia Museum of Art. This beautiful piece comes from the estate of the artist in New Jersey, and Meyer Fine Art...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Oil Landscape of the Columbia River Gorge
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Columbia River Gorge" by Cyrenius Hall is a quintessential example of the Hudson River School. Hall, known for his masterful landscapes, captures the awe-inspiring grandeur of the C...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Niagara Falls
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower left: R. Gignoux
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fishermen by a Brook by Charles Wilson Knapp (American, 1823-1900)
By Charles Wilson Knapp
Located in New York, NY
Hudson River School artist Charles Wilson Knapp's (1823-1900) "Fisherman by a Brook" is oil on canvas and measures 24 x 20 inches. The work is signed by Knapp at the lower left. The ...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rocky Seashore
By Lemuel D. Eldred
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Rocky Seascape" by Lemuel D. Eldred is a captivating painting that masterfully captures the raw beauty and power of the sea. Eldred, an accomplished 19th-century American marine art...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Day in November, 1863 by James MacDougal Hart (American: 1828–1901)
Located in New York, NY
A prominent 19th century landscapist, Hudson River School painter James McDougal Hart's (1828-1901) A Day in November, 1863 is oil on canvas and measures 10.5 x 18 inches. The painti...
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19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Figurative Landscape titled "School Time"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Theodore E. Pine (1828-1905) was an American artist known for his portraits and genre paintings. Pine specialized in portraiture, capturing the likenesses and personalities of his su...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Beekeeper's Daughter 1881 oil painting by Henry Bacon
By Henry Bacon
Located in Hudson, NY
Lovely genre scene by American impressionist Henry Bacon (1839-1912).
The Beekeeper's Daughter (1881)
Oil on canvas
35" x 36"
42.5" x 33" x 3" framed
Signed and dated "Henry Bacon ...
Category
1880s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape of Children Playing Baseball titled "Baseball Beneath the Hills"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This charming Hudson River School study by Virginia Granbery captures a tender and distinctly American moment: children playing baseball in a sunlit clearing. Painted by one of the f...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Walking Along a Rocky Shore
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
With masterful precision and a keen eye for atmosphere, Frederic Rondel captures the rugged beauty of the coastline in Walking Along a Rocky Shore. The painting depicts a windswept s...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Garden in Montone, France
By George Hobbs
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
George Hobbs’ A Garden in Montone, France invites viewers into a serene moment of everyday beauty nestled in the heart of the French countryside. The composition features a narrow la...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tropical Landscape
By Norton Bush
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Norton Bush (1834-1894)
Tropical Landscape
Oil on board, 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches (22.2 x 29.8 cm)
Signed lower left: N. Bush
Provenance
Private collection, New York;
Private collection, Pennsylvania
First noted for his portraits, marine views, and East Coast landscapes, Norton Bush became best known for his tropical views of Central and South America. He studied in New York City with the Hudson River school painter Jasper Cropsey and received criticism from another Hudson River school painter, Frederic Edwin Church. Like many who worked in the Hudson River school style, Bush also sought to inspire viewers with an expansive view of nature that dwarfed the relative influence and position of man. He first became interested in painting exotic...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fall Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower left: Blakelock
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil Landscape of Cabin In the Mountains
By William Hart
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
William Hart was an influential figure in the art world, best known for his contributions as a landscape painter during the 19th century. Born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1823, Hart imm...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Walking Home in the Snow
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Walking Home in the Snow by John Carleton Wiggins is a captivating winter landscape that evokes the tranquil beauty of rural life. The painting depicts a lone figure, likely a young ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Landscape with Two Girls titled "Girls Waiting for Father"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Virginia Granbery (1831-1921) was an accomplished American artist known for her work in watercolor and oil paintings. Granbery's works predominantly featured landscapes, floral studi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cathedral Spires, South Dakota
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Cathedral Spires, South Dakota," attributed to the accomplished painter Grafton Tyler Brown, is a stunning representation of the American landscape, i...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
House in the Mountains of Upstate New York
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Little House in the Upstate New York Mountains" by C.H. Schmidt is a captivating painting that evokes a sense of rustic charm. Set against the backdrop of the majestic mountains of ...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Rain Landscape Titled "Passing Shower"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
George Smillie (1840-1921) was an American landscape painter renowned for his serene and meticulously detailed depictions of the natural world. Smillie’s work is characterized by its...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View of South Pond, New York, 1879 by Ida H. Stebbins (American, b. 1851)
Located in New York, NY
Painted by Hudson River School artist Ida H. Stebbins (b. 1851), "View of South Pond, New York," 1879 is oil on canvas, measures 23 x 33 1/2 inches, and is signed and dated 1879 at the lower left. The work is framed in an elegant Barbizon style frame and ready to hang.
Ida H. Stebbins was born in January 1851 in Chelsea, Massachusetts to Mary and Isaac Stebbins, a teacher. Though scant records remain of Stebbins’ artistic training or career, various personal details of her life have been gleaned from contemporary newspapers and federal documents. By the time View of South Pond, New York was painted in 1879, she was living in Boston. Like many artists of her generation, Stebbins likely traveled throughout the Northeast region, gaining inspiration for her paintings from the landscape of New England and New York. Stebbins was likely visiting
upstate New York when she painted this sweeping view of South Pond and the surrounding mountains near Long Lake in the Adirondacks just south of Deerland. Here, Stebbins captures the stunning vermillion, burnt orange and brown tones of the autumn landscape with the style and precise rendering often seen in paintings produced by the Hudson River School.
Shortly after the completion of View of South Pond, New York, Stebbins married Frank H. Slack, a clerk, in her hometown of Chelsea on December 14, 1881 at the age of thirty. The couple moved to Hotel Comfort in Boston, where their son, Roland Stewart Slack was born on May 22, 1883. It seems likely that her husband died in the mid-1880s since on December 3, 1889, records indicate that Ida and Roland changed their last name back to her maiden name of Stebbins.
Roland Stewart Stebbins (1883-1974) inherited his mother’s interest in art, studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Columbia University in New York, and the Art Students League of New York. He also studied at the Académie de la Grand Chaumière and the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. Today, he is remembered for his marine and genre paintings and for his legacy as a respected professor of art education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
On January 1, 1890, Ida married her second husband, Timothy Jarvis, in Somerville, Massachusetts. Their daughter, Ida Hazel Jarvis, was born soon after in 1893. However, the child suffered paralysis from a brain tumor...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Little Girl Reading by House
By Edward Lamson Henry
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Reading After School," attributed to Edward Lamson Henry, offers a glimpse into the everyday moments of 19th-century American life. Known for his meticulous detail and his ability t...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Homeward Bound
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: W Whittredge
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fairhaven Harbor (Old Tack Works Wharf)
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Bradford
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Board
Mount Chocorua
Located in New York, NY
Leading Hudson River School Painter Famous for New England Views.
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Cove at Dusk
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed and dated 1877.
Mortimer Smith, a lesser-known yet skilled artist of the Hudson River School, captured the untamed beauty of the American landscape with remarkable depth. This painting presents a seacoast scene with a solitary fisherman, with his boat during the tide. The rugged cliffs frame the composition, their weathered surfaces telling the story of time and nature’s relentless forces. Sunlight filters through the mist, casting a halo glow in the sky, while waves crash against the shore in rhythmic motion. Smith’s brushwork conveys both the serenity and power of the natural world, inviting the viewer to step into the scene under nature's power and beauty.
Although born in Jamestown, New York, Mortimer Smith would become well-known as a Detroit architect and artist by the end of the nineteenth century. Little is known of Smith's earlier years; however, scholars speculate that he studied in Oberlin and Sandusky, Ohio before moving to Detroit in 1855. There, the artist flourished and became famous for his crisp landscapes of local scenery, including his beloved winter scenes. In addition to his artistic career, Smith founded a successful architectural firm by the name of Smith, Hynchman and Grylls; Smith's reputation in the visual arts was often overshadowed by his draftsmanship as an architect. Nevertheless, he was a vital force in Detroit's arts community exhibiting his works in venues including the Detroit Art...
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1870s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Fall Landscape, Catskills, with Hikers
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower left: Blakelock
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Summer Gathering
By Ambrose Andrews
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
An itinerant portrait, miniature, and landscape painter, Ambrose Andrews had a wide-ranging career geographically that saw him in many regions including New York (1829-31), Connecticut (1837), Texas (1837-1841) and Louisiana (1841-42). After 1844, he was active in St. Louis, New York City, Buffalo, New York, Vermont and Canada. He was born in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and in 1824, attended the National Academy of Design.
Andrews exhibited paintings at the Republic of Texas Capitol...
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19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mount Washington, New Hampshire
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Edmund Darch Lewis (1835-1910)
Mount Washington, New Hampshire
50 x 58 inches, signed & dated 1859
Description
The area near Mount Washington in New Hampshire was visited by many ...
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1850s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Distant Horizon
By Edward Moran
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Edward Moran (American, 1829 - 1901)
Boy with Dog on Dock
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
22 x 36 inches
Provenance: Sotheby's Sale no. 3255 Oct. 27-28, 1977 Page 58
Price on reques...
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
"A Cloudy Day, " View of Montclair, New Jersey, Tonalist, Barbizon Scene
Located in New York, NY
George Inness (1825 - 1894)
A Cloudy Day, 1886
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches
Signed and dated lower center
Provenance:
The artist
Estate of the above
Fifth Avenue Galleries, New York, Executor's Sale of Paintings by the Late George Inness, N.A., February 12 - 14, 1895, Lot 132
Joseph H. Spafford, acquired from the above
Mrs. Spafford, by bequest from the above
Leroy Ireland, New York, 1951
Ernest Closuit, Fort Worth, Texas
Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas, circa 1960
Private Collection
Shannon's Fine Art, American and European Fine Art Auction, October 27, 2016, Lot 42
Exhibited:
New York, American Fine Arts Society, Exhibition of the Paintings Left by the Late George Inness, December 27, 1894, no. 90.
Literature:
LeRoy Ireland, The Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonne, Austin, Texas, 1965, p. 336, no. 1324, illustrated.
Michael Quick, "George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonne," Vol. II, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2007, pp. 282-83, 311, no. 966, illustrated.
George Inness, one of America's foremost landscape painters of the late nineteenth century, was born in 1825 near Newburgh, New York. He spent most of his childhood in Newark, New Jersey. He was apprenticed to an engraving firm until 1843, when he studied art in New York with Regis Gignoux, a landscape painter from whom he learned the classical styles and techniques of the Old Masters. In 1851, sponsored by a patron, Inness made a fifteen-month trip to Italy. In 1853 he traveled to France, where he discovered Barbizon landscape painting, leading him to adopt a style that used looser, sketchier brushwork and more open compositions, emphasizing the expressive qualities of nature.
After working in New York from 1854 to 1859, he moved to Medfield, Massachusetts, and four years later to New Jersey, where through a fellow painter he began to experiment with using glazes that would allow him to fill his compositions with subtle effects of light. Duncan Phillips remarked on Inness’s mellow light as a unifying force, saying, “…he was equipped to modernize the grand manner of Claude and to apply the methods of Barbizon to American subjects."
At this time also, Inness developed an interest in the religious theories of Emanuel Swedenborg...
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1880s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
The Columbian Exhibition, the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Thaddeus Welch (American 1844-1919)
The Columbian Exhibition, the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
70 x 35”, oil on board signed
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Price Upon Request
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Find a wide variety of authentic Hudson River School landscape paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add landscape paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Ralph Albert Blakelock, Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Jasper Francis Cropsey, and John Frederick Kensett. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Hudson River School landscape paintings, so small editions measuring 4.75 inches across are also available. Prices for landscape paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $400 and tops out at $875,000, while the average work sells for $15,000.
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