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To: Joe 6-pack
Albert Bierstadt was my favorite of the Hudson River School of landscape painting. The first 3 below are his. The last one, Frederic Church, another of the very best.

 photo Albert Bierstadt - Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains_ California_zpsdd5qsnzg.jpg

 photo Bierstadt_LandersPeak_1863_zpsjhgoczcf.jpg

 photo Among the Bernese Alps by Albert Bierstadt_zpsbrjwdnvl.jpg

 photo Heart of the Andes Frederic Edwin Church 1859 Metropolitan Museum of Art_zpsubtxszct.jpg

4 posted on 06/27/2015 7:51:58 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

Yes, I’m a fan of the Hudson River painters as well, but I was posting this more for the political/cultural relevance than for art historical reasons. The video points out Cole’s antipathy to Jacksonian democracy and it’s threat to stable republicanism.


6 posted on 06/27/2015 7:55:22 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: ETL
"Our only means of judging the future is the past. We see that nations have sprung from obscurity, risen to glory and decayed. Their rise in general has been marked by virtue, their decadence by vice, vanity and licentiousness. Let us Beware."

~Thomas Cole

8 posted on 06/27/2015 8:02:28 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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