(Autumn Landscape) by Asher Brown DurandOriginal Source: http://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/mabi/exb/HudsonRiverSchool/DurandAutumn2813_300.html
'Asher Durand, one of the senior members of the Hudson River School, was originally trained as an engraver.'
Kauterskill Falls (1846) by Sanford GiffordSCAD Museum of Art
'The acclaimed American landscape painter Sanford Gifford was a member of the second generation of Hudson River School artists.'
Catskill Mountain House (1855) by Jasper Francis CropseyMinneapolis Institute of Art
'Cropsey belonged to the second generation of Hudson River School artists, a mid-nineteenth-century group of American landscape painters working in the Hudson River valley and the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains.'
The Lackawanna Valley (c. 1856) by George InnessNational Gallery of Art, Washington DC
'Rather than celebrating nature in the tradition of the Hudson River School, George Inness' Lackawanna Valley seems to commemorate the onset of America's industrial age.'
Rainy Season in the Tropics (1866) by Frederic Edwin Churchde Young museum
'"Rainy Season in the Tropics" is one of the most celebrated works by the second-generation Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church.'
White Mountains from Shelburne, NH (1816/1872) by John Frederick KensettSCAD Museum of Art
'John Frederick Kensett was a well-known landscape painter of the Hudson River School, a group of American naturalist painters, as well as a founder of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and a member of the National Academy of Design.'
California Spring (1875) by Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902)de Young museum
'Albert Bierstadt belongs to the second generation of the Hudson River School and is best known for his panoramic views of the American West.'
On the Hudson (1830/1902) by Albert BierstadtSCAD Museum of Art
'German-American painter Albert Bierstadt was associated with the Hudson River School, a group of naturalist painters known for sublime landscapes bathed in golden light with soft brushstrokes.'
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