[AmericanMade1776]

I saw an exhibit of the Hudson River Valley School, art at the Worcester Art Museum a few years back, but they were all landscapes of the Hudson Valley area.

[AnAmericanMother]

In those days - before the widespread adoption of the camera - the real money was in portraits.

But if you don't know the people involved, portraits pretty much look all alike. So most exhibitions focus on the landscapes. I like looking at portraits because human features are just about the most interesting landscape there is, but not everybody agrees . . . :-D

The HVS were probably the first semi-organized group of American artists to see wild nature as romantic spectacle rather than scary hostility to be tamed and overcome.