Hudson River School Art
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
Early 20th Century Hudson River School Autumnal Lake Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous Hudson River School style autumnal landscape of California Sierra lake with oaks and evergreen trees with shrubs turning red and orange hues. S...
Category
Early 20th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Pastoral Landscape, " William Hart, Hudson River School, Cloudy View with Cows
By William Hart
Located in New York, NY
William Hart (1823 - 1894)
Pastoral Landscape, 1877
Oil on canvas
9 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches
Signed and dated lower left
Born in Paisley, Scotland, William Ha...
Category
1870s Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"North Conway Farm, " Edward Hill, White Mountain School Antique Landscape View
By Edward Hill
Located in New York, NY
Edward Hill (1843 - 1923)
Haying at a North Conway Farm with Mount Washington in the Distance, New Hampshire
Oil on canvas
13 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Private Collection, Dallas, Texas
Born in Wolverhampton, England in 1843, Edward Hill was the ninth of ten children. Though ultimately less well known than his older brother Thomas Hill (1829-1908), Edward was a productive painter in oil and watercolor for more than sixty years, producing images of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, southern genre scenes, still-life paintings, portraits, American Indian pictures...
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Hudson River School Coastal Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique impressionist painting of a coastal seascape. Oil on canvas, circa 1900. Signed illegibly. Framed. Image size, 18L x 12H.
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1890s Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, 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 Art
Materials
Watercolor
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 Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mount Hood From Clear Lake, Early 20th Century Large-Scale Panoramic Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Mount Hood From Clear Lake, Early 20th Century Large-Scale Panoramic Landscape
Large-scale panoramic oil painting landscape of Mount Hood from Clear Lake by William M. Lemos (Ameri...
Category
1930s Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Linen, Stretcher Bars
New England Sunrise, 1910 by Lockwood DeForest (American, 1850-1932)
Located in New York, NY
"New England Sunrise," 1910 by Hudson River School painter Lockwood DeForest (American, 1850-1932) is oil on artists card-stock and measures 9.75 x 14 inches. The work is signed by D...
Category
Early 20th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Hudson Highlands by Lockwood DeForest (American, 1850-1932)
Located in New York, NY
"Hudson Highlands," by Hudson River School painter Lockwood DeForest (American, 1850-1932) is oil on artists card-stock and measures 9.5 x 14 inches. The work is framed in an elegant...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Dusk Forest Scene, Catskills by Lockwood DeForest (American, 1850-1932)
Located in New York, NY
"Dusk Forest Scene, Catskills," 1875 by Hudson River School painter Lockwood DeForest (American, 1850-1932) is oil on artists card-stock and measures 9.5 x 7 inches. The work is sign...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Scene in Mohawk Valley, Utica, NY by Lemuel Maynard Wiles (American, 1826-1905)
Located in New York, NY
"Scene in Mohawk Valley, Utica, NY," c. 1860 by Hudson River School painter Lemuel Maynard Wiles (American, 1826-1905) was painted during the Civil War years. Wiles's red striated cl...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Catskill Mountains Landscape by Edward Delavan Nelson (American, 1821-1871)
Located in New York, NY
"Catskill Mountains Landscape," by Hudson River School painter Edward Delavan Nelson (American, 1821-1871) is oil on canvas and measures 15 x 24 inches. It is signed with the artist'...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Farmyard on the Upper Hudson by Hermann Fuechsel (German-American, 1833-1915)
By Hermann Fuechsel
Located in New York, NY
"Farmyard on the Upper Hudson," by Hudson River School painter Hermann Fuechsel (German-American, 1833-1915) is oil on canvas and measures 16 x 30 inches. It is signed by Fuechsel at...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer at the Farm by James McDougal Hart (American, 1828-1901)
Located in New York, NY
"Summer at the Farm," by Hudson River School painter James McDougal Hart (American, 1833-1915) is oil on canvas and measures 14 x 24 inches. It is signed and dated by Hart at the low...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cattle by the Sea, c. 1867 by Ann Sophia Towne Darrah (American, 1819-1881)
Located in New York, NY
"Cattle by the Sea," c. 1867 by historic woman artist Ann Sophia Towne Darrah (American, 1819-1881) was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1867. Painted in oil...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Oil Snow Landscape titled "Gathering Wood for Winter, New Haven, CT"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
George Henry Durrie's painting "Gathering Wood for Winter, New Haven, CT" captures the essence of 19th-century rural America with its picturesque depiction of a serene winter landsca...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Water Landscape with Mountains
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Alfred Thompson Bricher, an American artist celebrated for his exquisite marine and landscape paintings, created "Boats Sailing Between Mountains." This piece exemplifies Bricher’s m...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
Oil Landscape titled "A View of Irvington on Hudson"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"A View of Irvington on Hudson," a watercolor by John Henry Hill, captures the picturesque beauty of Irvington, a charming village nestled along the Hudson River. Hill, celebrated fo...
Category
Late 18th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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 Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American Hudson River School Cows Grazing Signed Framed Oil Painting
By William Hart
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible early American Hudson River School landscape painting by William Hart (1823 - 1894). Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Measuring 15 by 17 inches overall and image size, 1...
Category
1870s Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Beechwood Summer
Located in Washington Depot,, CT
William McKendree Snyder
Beechwood in Summer
oil on canvas
12 x 20 in.
Category
Early 20th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn on the Hudson River by Arthur Parton (American, 1842-1914)
Located in New York, NY
"Autumn on the Hudson River" by Hudson River School painter Arthur Parton (American, 1842-1914) is oil on canvas mounted to board. The painting measures 18 1/8 x 34 1/16 inches, and ...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pastoral Landscape titled "Cows Resting"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
James McDougal Hart (1828-1901) was a prominent American landscape painter and a key figure in the Hudson River School. His landscapes are characterized by their serene and idyllic q...
Category
Late 18th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Miniature Sailboat Landscape
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Frederick J. Sykes (1851-1905) was a remarkable artist of the Hudson River School, renowned for capturing the serene beauty of tranquil landscapes. His work often featured New Englan...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Board
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Polar Sea Landscape
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
George Curtis transcended the typical Hudson River School style with this painting. While in the Hudson River School, painters often created warmer landscapes of the American country...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Watercolor River Landscape titled "Enjoying Calm Waters"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Enjoying Calm Waters" is a captivating 19th-century American School watercolor landscape that epitomizes the beauty of a northern American scene. This exquisite piece showcases the ...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Landscape
By William Bliss Baker
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hudson River School Style - The Homestead and Grist Mill 1942
By A. Mathieu
Located in Soquel, CA
Hudson River School Style - The Homestead and Grist Mill 1942
In the Hudson River School style by A (K) Mathieu (American, 19th-20th C). Harvest time at the Homestead with a hay wago...
Category
1940s Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board, Stretcher Bars
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rainbow Over the Niagara Falls, NY
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Rainbow Over Niagara Falls, NY" by John Henry Hill is a breathtaking painting that beautifully captures the awe-inspiring grandeur of one of nature's most magnificent wonders. In th...
Category
Early 20th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
EXHIBITED American Hudson River COW School Landscape Stream with Cows
By William Hart
Located in New York, NY
William Hart (1823-1894), a Scottish-born American painter and member of the Hudson River School, famous for his oil paintings of atmospheric landscapes and cattle. His works are inc...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
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...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Joachim Ferdinand Richardt, River Baptism
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This mid-19th-century oil painting by Danish-American artist Joachim Ferdinand Richardt (1819-1895) depicts a congregation observing a river baptism, probably in the Mississippi River.
In 2009, at President Obama’s Inauguration luncheon, a panoramic view of Niagara was selected as the backdrop to his speech. It’s a breathtaking image, capturing the sublimity of the American Falls and the Horseshoe Falls in all their iconic majesty. The ‘Maid-of-the-Mist’, negotiates the rapids, a mere speck within a broad expanse of water. While beyond, a colossal sheet of spray is sharply illuminated through passing clouds.
It was painted by the son of a bookbinder, a humble Danish artist who travelled extensively across the United States to document its nature, buildings and civilization. Admired in his own lifetime, this unassuming adventurer produced scores of resplendent vistas but also numerous vignettes documenting everyday activities.
Joachim Ferdinand Richardt was initially destined to become a carpenter but, thankfully, enrolled at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under three distinguished masters. Blessed with a skill for drawing, he was awarded medals and in 1839 began exhibiting at the prestigious Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition. In 1841, the Danish Royal Family acquired one of his works and six years later granted him a five-year stipend.
Richardt trained at a time of exceptional creative output whereby Denmark was developing a clearer identity. Dubbed ‘National Romanticism’, artists were extolling their country’s natural beauty, while also celebrating humble folk life within rural environs. Stylistically, their work is somewhat comparable with German Romanticism...
Category
1860s Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Summer Landscape
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
James Renwick Brevoort (1832–1918) was an influential American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, a mid-19th century art movement known for its romantic portr...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Oil Mountain Landscape titled "Adirondack Sunset"
By Homer Dodge Martin
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Homer Dodge Martin (1836–1897) was an influential American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School and the Barbizon School. His style was heavily influenced by the dramatic landscapes of the Hudson River Valley and the works of European masters...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
[Mount Washington Winter Scene]
Located in Boston, MA
Signed and dated lower left: "SW Griggs 73". In fine condition.
Category
1870s Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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Oil Sunset titled "Virginia Sunset"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
William H. Langworthy (1836–1900) was an American painter known for his contributions to landscape and genre painting during the late 19th century. Little is known about Langworthy's...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Campfire at Sunset, 1867
Located in New York, NY
In “Campfire at Sunset,” George Inness captures a stunning sunset with a smoldering campfire set on a lakeside.
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
On the Beach at Long Branch - The Children's Hour
Located in Fairlawn, OH
On the Beach at Long Branch - The Children's Hour
Wood engraving, 1874
Published in "Harper's Weekly" August 15, 1874 (p. 672)
Image size: 9 1/4 x 13 5/8 inches
Provenance: Wunderlic...
Category
1870s Hudson River School Art
Materials
Woodcut
Oil Landscape of a Mountain Sunset
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Régis François Gignoux (1816–1882) was a French-American landscape painter known for his contributions to the Hudson River School. Gignoux quickly became an integral part of the Amer...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Art
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Landscape of Water During Sunset
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Thomas Charles Farrer (1839–1891) was a notable American painter and educator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the United States. Farrer studied at the Royal Academy of...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Sunset Forest Scene titled "Autumn Sunset"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Paul Gottlieb Weber (1823-1916) was a German-American painter renowned for his landscape and genre scenes. Settling initially in Philadelphia from Germany, he quickly gained recognit...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Friend of a Friend (oil painting of young boys in landscape)
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Richard Law Hinsdale (1832–1874) was an American painter known for his contributions to landscape and genre painting during the mid-19th century, mostly in the Hudson River School. He received brief instruction from Alexander Emmons, Philip Hewins and Jared B Flagg as well as being exhibited in American art...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fruit Still Life
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Edward L. Custer (1837–1881) was an American painter known for his landscape paintings, genre scenes, and still lifes often imbued with a romantic and idyllic quality. Custer's paint...
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Landscape titled "French River Scene"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
William Henry Howe (1846–1929) was an esteemed American painter known for his remarkable depictions of rural landscapes and livestock, particularly ...
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Early 20th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of Grandmother and Grandson titled "Peeling Apples"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
John George Brown (1831–1913) was a prominent British-born American painter, renowned for his genre paintings that vividly depict the everyday life of chi...
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sketch from Nature: Pear Tree in Blossom, 1874
Located in New York, NY
David Johnson paints a gorgeous view of a pear tree in full blossom in the middle of a rural dirt path in his artwork entitled, “Sketch from Nature: Pear Tree in Blossom.”
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Under the Palisades, 1899
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Francis Cropsey paints a view out from the Palisades onto the Hudson River in his artwork entitled, “Under the Palisades.”
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunset Boating Landscape
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Paul Weber was a German born artist that painted beautiful American Landscapes. He exhibited his works in New England, specifically Philadelphia and Boston. After his famed period of...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Livestock Landscape
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven, a luminary of 19th-century Belgian art, wielded his brush with unparalleled mastery, capturing the timeless allure of pastoral landscapes and noble anim...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Ocean Landscape of Sailing off the Coast
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This coastal landscape is done by the famed painted William Frederick De Haas (1830-1880). This painting shows two men in a canoe paddling off the cliff shore in the foreground with ...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jamestown, Virginia Landscape
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
John A Mooney is a Virginian artist who has been known to paint trompe loeil and landscape paintings. Born in Buffalo, New York, John A. Mooney (1843-1918) traveled to Georgia to enl...
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Early 20th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hudson River School Style Painting, Signed Brundell
Located in Larchmont, NY
G. Brundell
Untitled, c. Early 20th Century
Oil on canvas
Sight: 10 x 18 in.
Framed: 20 x 27 7/8 x 2 in.
Category
Early 20th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hudson River School art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Hudson River School art 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 art 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 art, so small editions measuring 2 inches across are also available. Prices for art 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 $13,267.