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Hudson River School Still-life 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
Oil Flower Still Life of Morning Glories
By Sarah E. Davis
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
During her lifetime, Davis was best known for her exquisitely-painted floral still lifes, which she exhibited to much acclaim in New York from the mid-1870s to the mid-1880s. As an a...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Still Life of Currants
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left. Edward Chalmers Leavitt, artist, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, March 9, 1842, the son of Rev. Jonathan and Charlotte Esther (Stearns) Leavitt. His patern...
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Early 1900s Hudson River School Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Carnations
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left and dated 1894. Edward C. Leavitt, born in 1842, has been described as "Providence, Rhode Island's leading still-life painter" in the late 19th Century. (Zellman...
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1890s Hudson River School Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Oil Still Life of Apples
By George Harvey
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
George Harvey was born in 1800 in Tottenham, England but moved to the United states at 20 years old and spent several years in the west before he established himself in New York City...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Gooseberries, " Levi Wells Prentice, Hudson River School Forest Still Life
Located in New York, NY
Levi Wells Prentice (1851 - 1935) Gooseberries, circa 1899 Oil on canvas 6 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Donna Schlesak, Burlington, Wisconsin Self-taught ar...
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1890s Hudson River School Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Grapes and Peach
By George Cope
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right & dated 1888.
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1880s Hudson River School Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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Hudson River School still-life paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Hudson River School still-life paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 20th Century, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including George Cope, George Harvey, Edward Chalmers Leavitt, and Levi Wells Prentice. Frequently made by artists working with Canvas, and Fabric 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 still-life paintings, so small editions measuring 10 inches across are also available. Prices for still-life 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 $4,500 and tops out at $14,500, while the average work sells for $7,500.

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