The Hudson River School

Artists by Movement:
The Hudson River School

America, 1835 to 1870

The Hudson River School encompasses two generations of painters inspired by Thomas Cole's, awesomely Romantic images of America's wilderness - in the Hudson River Valley and also in the newly opened West. The particular use of light effects, to lend an exaggerated drama to such elements as mist and sunsets, developed into a subspecialty known as Luminism.

In addition to Thomas Cole, the best-known practioners of this style were Frederic Edwin Church and Albert Bierstadt.

Chronological Listing of Hudson River School Painters

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Thomas Doughty	1793-1856	American Painter
Asher B. Durand	1796-1886	American Painter
Thomas Cole	1801-1848	English/American Painter
Robert W. Weir	1803-1889	American Painter
V. DeGrailly	1804-1889	French Painter
Fitz Hugh Lane	1804-1865	American Painter
Thomas Chambers	1808-1866	English/American Painter
Johann Hermann Carmiencke	1810-1867	German/American Painter
John William Casilear	1811-1893	American Painter
George Loring Brown	1814-1889	American Painter
Edmund Coates	1816-1871	American Painter
Regis-Francois Gignoux	1816-1882	French/American Painter
Daniel Huntington	1816-1906	American Painter
John Frederick Kensett	1816-1872	American Painter
Thomas Prichard Rossiter	1818-1871	American Painter
Martin Johnson Heade	1819-1904	American Painter
Thomas Worthington Whittredge	1820-1910	American Painter
Robert Scott Duncanson	1821-1872	African-American Painter
William Louis Sonntag	1822-1900	American Painter
Jasper Francis Cropsey	1823-1900	American Painter
Sanford Robinson Gifford	1823-1880	American Painter
William Hart	1823-1894	Scottish/American Painter
Charles W. Knapp	1823-1900	American Painter
Paul Weber	1823-1916	German/American Painter
George Inness	1825-1894	American Painter
Frederic Edwin Church	1826-1900	American Painter
David Johnson	1827-1908	American Painter
James McDougal Hart	1828-1901	Scottish/American Painter
Thomas Hill	1829-1908	English/American Painter
Albert Bierstadt	1830-1902	German/American Painter
Herman Herzog	1831-1932	German/American Painter
Louis Remy Mignot	1831-1870	American Painter
Samuel Colman 1832-1920	1832-1920	American Painter
Francis A. Silva	1835-1886	American Painter
Alfred Thompson Bricher	1837-1908	American Painter
Thomas Moran	1837-1926	English/American Painter

Artists by Movement:The Hudson River School

Artists by Movement:
The Hudson River School