Hudson River School of Landscape Painting (mid-19th century American art movement)

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[Governor Dinwiddie]

Yes. Nice stuff. Your daughter is very talented, and you have a lot to brag about. I like everything except the "tongues" one, LOL. I guess teenagers will be teenagers … now excuse me while I finish the week's rerun of Lawrence Welk!   :)
 

[poconopundit]

Beautiful stuff. I adapted one of these paintings to create a meme:

[ETL]

Lol! Very nice.

[americas.best.days...]

Very nice.

Another genre I liked were the Florida Highwaymen landscape paintings. Not as technically advanced, but beautiful just the same.

[native texan]

ETL, thank you for the wonderful show! I am a landscape/still life artist and watching art degenerate through the years has hurt my heart. I love the HRS artists. As you say, realistic, beautiful art is no longer desired by most. These guys went out without a camera; and in plein air, and a limited pallet, and did the most incredible work.

[4Liberty]

+1

[ETL]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art here in NYC just recently ended a special exhibit on TC and his influences. It was a free one, so I went. Cash a little tight right now.

[poconopundit]

Glad you liked the meme. I created another one from a Thomas Moran piece of the Hudson River School. This one is his interpretation of the Sirens in Homer's tale of Ulysses.

And I weaved a commentary about Trump in this March 2016 vanity entitled: Ulysses Trump Joins Millions of Heroic Hearts to Take Back America. MAGA/KAG.

[niteowl77]

I loved the HRS when I was a younger man... I still do to a lesser extent. I recently picked up a used (and signed!) copy of Roland Van Zandt's "Catskill Mountain House;" it is not a book about art, but is nonetheless an excellent read for those interested in a physically small bit of the Catskills that was so important to the movement.

Mr. niteowl77

[The Westerner]

THANK YOU!

[cherry]

Cole was featured at munson procter institute many yrs ago and it was my favorite hangout. That was in Utica ny.

[MarchonDC09122009]

I apologize for the broken links
You can find more about John Whitehead’s cultural decline documentary, Grasping for the Wind, here and thru other searches.
https://www.amazon.com/Grasping-Wind-John-Whitehead/dp/B0006U5URW

[iceskater]

That is a great building. As a painter myself, I totally LOVED his studio! What a great place to paint.

[Mogger]

There are quite a few HRSA paintings in the Athanaeum in St. Johnsbury VT.

[JustaTech]

Bob Ross could paint all those in an afternoon. ;)

Seriously, thanks for the eye candy.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ETL. The west bldg of the National Gallery is (or at least used to be) loaded up with works of this kind, that is, representational and realistic paintings -- but OTOH has a whole room of Impressionist works (I only appreciate those in person, prints uniformly suck, so I'd never had much use for it), as well as the only complete work by da Vinci this side of the Atlantic.

[SunkenCiv]

(btw, the real reason I'm a fan of Thomas Cole)

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