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Hudson River School 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
Color:  Beige
Sunset on the Hudson River by Hermann Simon (American, 1846-1895)
Located in New York, NY
Painted by Hudson River School artist Hermann Simon (1846-1895) , "Sunset on the Hudson River" is oil on canvas, measures 15 x 25 inches, and is signed and dated 1875 at the lower ri...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Spring Garden
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right in arrowhead: R A Blakelock; on verso: A Spring Garden
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Panel

View on the Hudson, the Catskills in the Distance
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: F.A. SILVA.
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Moonlit Seascape
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower left of center: WMT. Richards 1875
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Indian Encampment
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right in arrowhead: R.A. Blakelock
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Fall Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower left: Blakelock
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil

"Western Lake Landscape, " John Fery, Hudson River School View
By John Fery
Located in New York, NY
John Fery (1859 - 1934) Western Lake Landscape, circa 1920 Oil on canvas 21 x 23 1/4 inches Signed lower left Provenance: Private Collection, New York Born in Austria, John Fery earned a strong reputation for dramatic paintings of western mountain landscape in the United States. Glacier National Park in northwest Montana was a popular subject for him. He was raised in a prominent, wealthy family that lived on an estate about nineteen miles northeast of Salzburg. His mother was Hungarian, and his father was born in Bohemia. S ome sources have written that he studied art in Dusseldorf, Germany with Peter Jansen, and also in Munich, Venice and Karlsruhe. But his "name does not appear in the records of the major art schools in any of these places, nor is there any record of his name at either the Vienna or Budapest academies." (Merrill 26) It is possible, however, that he received private instruction, and because of the sophistication of his painting, sources think it unlikely that he was self taught. An early interest in wilderness scenery led him to painting American landscapes and hunting scenes. In the mid 1880s, he came to America and lived in the German community in Milwaukee, and then in 1886, brought his family to the United States. His wife, Mary Rose Kraemer (1862-1940), was born in Switzerland, and they had one child born near Munich and two others born in the United States. From 1886 to 1888, they lived in New York, and by 1890, Fery had made his first trip West. He visited Yellowstone Park in 1891, and indicated in his writings that he had been there even earlier. From 1892 to 1893, he led European nobility on hunting expeditions to the American Northwest, made possible by the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad...
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1920s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Cirrus I, Abstract Landscape, Hudson River School, Oil , framed, Tranquili
Located in Riverdale, NY
Cirrus I, Oil on Board, 13x18, framed to 22x27. It is an Abstracted landscape in the Hudson River School style. The colors are earth tones with browns and off white. It has a tra...
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2010s Hudson River School Paintings

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Last Light from the Hill
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original oil on panel, signed with the artist's initials lower right.
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2010s Hudson River School Paintings

Morning LIght
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original Oil on Panel Signed lower right.
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2010s Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil

Valley Pastorale
Located in San Francisco, CA
Oil on panel 18 x 24 inches 24 1/2 x 30 1/2 inches Framed Signed lower left Jane Bloodgood-Abrams 16; also signed and titled on verso. Continuing the tradition of fine landsc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil

Picnic On The Mohawk
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderful landscape by American artist Thomas Mickell Burnham (1818-1866). Burnham was born in Boston, MA and received informal art training early on, traveling abroad before relo...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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Hudson River School paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Hudson River School 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 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 paintings, so small editions measuring 4 inches across are also available. Prices for 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 $14,933.

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