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
Beacon Rock, Newport
Located in New York, NY
Monogrammed and dated lower right: JF. K. 63
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil
PERIOD American Antique Civil War Portrait of Officer and His Horse
Located in New York, NY
American artist Franklin Briscoe (1844-1903) known for his hirtorical and portrait paintings, paints a Civil War piece; it is a portrait of an officer with his white horse.
The brus...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Shoreline with Basket and Boats
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower left: William F. de Haas. ‘76
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shore III, Storm, abstract landscape, Oil on Board, Framed, Hudson River School
Located in Riverdale, NY
Shore III, Oil on Board, 21x18. It is framed. It is a stormy, abstracted landscape in a Hudson River School painting style.
In Sharon Gordon's landscapes, you can feel her deep co...
Category
2010s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Warning
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Edward Lamson Henry (American, (1841 - 1919))
“The Warning”
Grisaille on paper mounted on board, signed lower left ‘E L Henry’ (partially obscured by frame)
...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil, Laid Paper
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...
Category
2010s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Rocky Shore
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: W Bradford
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sunset, Along the Front Range, Colorado, 1900s Traditional Landscape Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Original signed framed vintage landscape painting by Charles Partridge Adams (1858-1942) of a Sunset along the Front Range of Colorado (near D...
Category
Early 20th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
“Worcester, Massachusetts”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on wood panel painting of a Worcester, Massachusetts view by local resident artist Mabel Blake. Signed M. Blake lower left. Circa 1880. Condition is good. The bucolic scene depicts a man in a boat...
Category
1880s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Lifting Fog, Grand Manan
Located in New York, NY
Monogrammed lower left: ATBricher
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Whiteface Mt, Lake Placid NY
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left
A 19th-century marine painter, William Bradford is famous for his seascapes that reflect his background of being raised in an area known for whaling and other marine activities. During much of his career, his work focused on the Arctic region, which he depicted with strong color and spectacular lighting.
Bradford was born and raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts to Quaker parents who disapproved of his desire for a painting career. He became a clerk in his father's dry goods shop in New Bedford but devoted his spare time to sketching, a diversion that caused him and his wife to lose a farm that had been given to them by his father-in- law.
In the early 1850s, living in Fairhaven, he launched his professional career by selling portraits of ships for twenty-five dollars a piece. In 1854, he opened a studio and about this same time attracted the interest of Albert Van Beest, a Dutch painter who had come to America in 1845. He became Bradford's teacher and collaborator, and until his death in 1860, they painted together local scenes including seascapes and whaling pictures.
In 1861, Bradford began a series of trips to Nova Scotia, Labrador, and Greenland, and painting and photographing the Arctic region became a consuming interest. He also published a book in London titled The Arctic Region, which he vividly illustrated with photographs pasted onto the page and he gave lectures accompanied by lantern slides...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
19th Century Hudson River School Landscape after Richard Goodwin
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming Hudson River school antique oil painting of a sailboat on a lake, circa 1880-90. Signed "R. Labarr." after Richard LaBarre Goodwin...
Category
1880s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pompton, New Jersey
Located in New York, NY
Monogrammed and dated lower right: DJ. 79.; on verso: –Study– / Pompton. / N-J. / David Johnson. 1879.
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil
View by a Lake
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Ernest Parton
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Niagara Falls
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower left: R. Gignoux
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fog Lifting (Small Landscape Oil Painting of Olana, Gold Frame)
Located in Hudson, NY
This small, horizontal oil on canvas en plein air landscape painting was painted by Hudson Valley based artist, Judy Reynolds. The composition features a peaceful landscape as the fo...
Category
2010s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Grapes and Peach
By George Cope
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right & dated 1888.
Category
1880s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Indian Encampment
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower left in arrowhead: R. A. Blakelock
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Evening Glare
Located in San Francisco, CA
Oil on linen panel. Signed on recto; titled and dated on verso.
Category
2010s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sunrise on Lake George New York
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right
Known as a painter of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Samuel Griggs was listed as an architect in the Boston City directory from ...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Smith Farm
Located in New York, NY
Monogrammed lower right; Inscribed on verso: To Miss Francis Smith with Compliments of the Artist. David Johnson. Oct 1893
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mount Chocorua
Located in New York, NY
Leading Hudson River School Painter Famous for New England Views.
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Homeward Bound
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: W Whittredge
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Marina Grande, Capri, with Figures
Located in New York, NY
Prominent Luminist Hudson River School painter.
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mount Etna from Catania
Located in New York, NY
Prominent Luminist Hudson River School painter.
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Deer in the Forest
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower right: • FARNY • /88
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
Morrisinia, New York in the Bronx
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left, titled and dated
Born in Staindrop, County Durham, England, he was a portrait and landscape painter, especially appreciated for watercolor painting, which he sold...
Category
1850s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Sailboats by the Shore
Located in Concord, MA
JOHN ADAMS PARKER
Oil on canvas
6 x 10 inches
Monogrammed at lower right with conjoined initials: JAP
Gifford style frame
PROVENANCE
Harbor Gallery, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
Category
1870s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil
River Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: L.W.Prentice.
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
At Pasture
Located in New York, NY
Leading Hudson River School Painter Famous for New England Views
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
View Down on the Bay
By Edward Rawstorne
Located in New York, NY
Rawstorne was active/lived in New York.
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Twilight on the Sawmill River
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower right: J.F. Cropsey 1887
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Last Light from the Hill
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original oil on panel, signed with the artist's initials lower right.
Category
2010s Hudson River School Paintings
Warm Tones of Evening
Located in San Francisco, CA
Oil on Panel, signed with the artist's initials lower right.
Category
2010s Hudson River School Paintings
Moonlight Seascape
Located in New York, NY
Monogrammed lower left: ATBRICHER
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Ruins with Figures
Located in New York, NY
Famed Hudson River School painter and architect.
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Paper, Canvas, Oil
Morning LIght
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original Oil on Panel
Signed lower right.
Category
2010s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hawley, Pennsylvania
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: RABlakelock
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Lake in the Mountains
By Daniel Folger Bigelow
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower left: D. F. Bigelow / 70
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Turn of Century Yellowstone Falls Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Substantial and period painting of Yellowstone Falls by an unknown artist (American, 19th-20th Century), c.1880-1898. Unsigned. With a plaque "Yellow...
Category
1890s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
River Landscape
By John Dolph
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
John Henry Dolph, is best known as painter of domestic animals, especially cats. He was born in 1835 in Fort Ann, New York, and spent much of his career th...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Domain (Contemporary Hudson Valley Landscape Oil Painting in Wood Frame)
By Leigh Palmer
Located in Hudson, NY
acrylic on paper mounted on board
35 x 35 inches framed
Romantic (yet modern) Hudson River oil landscape painting of rolling, hilly farmland with trees in the foreground with a luminous blue sky in the background. Palmer's realistic technique captures the many textures of the natural world, from meticulously rendered trees to the clouds that hover gently overhead. The painting floats in a black-painted wood frame with a wire across the back for instant, professional-quality hanging.
About the artist:
In 1987, Leigh Palmer moved with his family from suburban Duxbury, Massachusetts, to Tivoli, New York, a quiet town on the Hudson River, north of New York City. His subject matter shifted to the sprawling hills and countryside of the Hudson Valley. “I wanted to respond to the new landscape I was seeing, to catch something of the feeling I had just before dark,” says Palmer. “I took a lot of photographs, but I was happier with the paintings I created from memory.”
Leigh Palmer has been represented by Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY for over 25 years.
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EXHIBITIONS
2013 - 2017 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY
2011 Graficas Gallery, Nantucket MA
2010 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY
2009 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent CT
2008 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent CT
Four Starr Gallery, Stonington CT
2007 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY
2005 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent CT
2004 Segalas Gallery, Bernardsville NJ
2003, 04 Bachelier-Cardonsky, Gallery Kent CT
2000, 01, 03 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY
1999 Barbara Singer Fine Art, Cambridge MA
1999, 98 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY
1997 The Main Street Gallery, Nantucket MA
1996 Randall Tuttle Fine Arts, Woodbury CT
1995 James Cox...
Category
Early 2000s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Trail through the Trees
Located in New York, NY
Monogrammed lower left: ABierstadt
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Forest Clearing
By Roswell Morse Shurtleff
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left.
Most noted for his paintings of forest interiors, Roswell Shurtleff settled in Hartford, Connecticut but spent his summers painting his signature works in the Adirondacks at Keene Valley, New York. He and John Lee Fitch successfully encouraged other artists to join them including Winslow Homer, J Alden Weir, James Smillie...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Lake George, New York
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed & dated lower right.
Known as a painter of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Samuel Griggs was listed as an architect in the Boston City directory from 1848 to 1852, a...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pleasant Day
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left
J. A. Hekking was a versatile and talented landscape painter who lived in New York and Connecticut and was active from the early 1850's to the later 1870's. Hekking was a frequent participant at major exhibitions.
His paintings were inspired by the Adirondack and White Mountains, Connecticut, New York views, and the Jersey shore. He worked with Frederick Rondeland. His paintings were actively acquired by important collectors including J.S. Farrand, Sarah Holderby, N.L. Lindsey, T. Foster, and George Watter Vincent Smith.
Hekking exhibited at the National Academy of Design (eight paintings between 1859 and 1875); the 1865 Michigan State Fair; the Crystal Palace in New York, 1853; Cosmopolitan Art Association, 1858; Utica Art Association, 1868; Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1869; Boston;1869; the Buffalo YMCA, 1861 and the Chicago Industrial...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
California Mill
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed & dated, lower left, 1869
Herman Ottomar Herzog was born in Bremen, Germany, on November 15, 1831. He studied art at the Dusseldorf Academy, starting in 1848, under several classical landscape painters. In 1855, Herzog made his first visit to Norway. The trip was a milestone in Herzog's career as it exposed him to the rugged landscape of the Norwegian wilderness and instilled in him a lifelong sense of nature that was to show in all his work.
During the late 1850's and early 1860's, Herzog's fame spread throughout Europe. His paintings were collected for their dynamic realism and strong atmospheric effects. Among his patrons were several of Europe's royal families, including Queen Victoria of England and Grand Duke Alexander of Russia. He exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1863 and 1864, winning an Honorable Mention. While in Paris, it is thought that Herzog came into contact with the popular Barbizon School, whose adherents painted the grandeur and beauty of Nature in a romantic and realistic style. The effect of the Barbizon painters can also be seen in Herzog's poetic handling of mood and color. Although he was still in Europe, Herzog sent several paintings for exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy from 1863 to 1869. He had several friends in the United States and they were developing a rather good demand for his work.
It is not known exactly when Herzog decided to come to America. Sometime in the late 1860's he settled in Philadelphia. Besides wanting a developing market for his work, Herzog left Bremen due to rising political agitation by Prussia, which had just absorbed Bremen into its domain. In America, Herzog continued to paint his romantic landscapes, finding the American wilderness well suited to his style. In 1871, he traveled up the Hudson River on a painting tour. In 1873, he took his first trip west, going to Yosemite, then to Wyoming, Oregon, and along the West Coast to the Coronado Island, near the Mexican border. Herzog made several journeys west, finding each trip more fruitful than the last. He became known for his depictions of Yosemite, receiving great acclaim for a fine El Capitan, much in the style of his fellow countryman and painter Albert Bierstadt. His last trip west was in 1905, at the age of 74.
In 1876, Herzog participated in the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, showing a Norwegian scene and a Yosemite landscape...
Category
1860s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Fairhaven Harbor (Old Tack Works Wharf)
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Bradford
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Board
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Greek Ruins"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Lower Right
Known for his marine, history, and portrait paintings, Franklin Briscoe was born in Baltimore, Maryland and at age four moved with his family to Philadelphia where he later became a student of Edward Moran and where eventually he settled his studio.
Briscoe made extended ocean voyages, including trips to Europe where he saw much painting in galleries, and from these adventures and observations developed his landmark paintings of the ocean and ships in all kinds of weather conditions.
In 1885, he painted an historical mural that was in ten panels, a total of 230 feet long, and 13 feet tall--"The Battle of Gettysburg...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fourteen Mile Island, Lake George
By Andrew Fisher Bunner
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Andrew Fisher Bunner ANA 1841-1897
Andrew Fisher Bunner was born in 1841 in New York City, and he studied there and in Europe. In fact, his career included extended travels in Fra...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Landscape with Cows near Warwick, New York
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower left: J. F. Cropsey / 1885
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique American Bucolic Oil Painting by listed artist Edward B. Gay (1837-1928)
By Edward Gay
Located in Baltimore, MD
Painted in the general manner of the Hudson River School artists, this lovely river scene by listed artist Edward B. Gay is a reaction to the industrialization of America in the latt...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Breaking Through the Clouds, Kentucky" Carl Brenner, Appalachia Landscape
By Carl Christian Brenner
Located in New York, NY
Carl Brenner
Breaking Through the Clouds, Kentucky, 1876
Signed and dated lower right
Oil on canvas
18 x 30 inches
Provenance:
Merida Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
Richard Dee Spenc...
Category
1870s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique American Hudson River School Seascape Sunset Sailboat Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive 19th century Hudson River School pastel painting of sailing ships by George Herbert McCord (1848 - 1909). Pastel on board. Nicely framed. Image size, 6.5"H x 9"L.
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1880s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Lake Landscape" Hamilton Hamilton, Hudson River School View
Located in New York, NY
Hamilton Hamilton
Lake Landscape, 1886
Initialed and dated lower right
Oil on canvas
22 x 36 inches
Of Scottish descent and born in Oxford, England, Hamilton Hamilton became a renow...
Category
1880s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Catskill Sawmill
Located in Missouri, MO
Afternoon In The Hudson River Valley, 1854
By. John William Hill (English, American, 1812-1879)
Signed and Dated Lower Left
Unframed: 20 x 30 inches
Fra...
Category
1860s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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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