The Hudson River to Niagara Falls: 19th-century American Landscape Paintings from the New-York Historical Society
Curated by Dr. Linda S. Ferber
July 11 – December 13, 2009
East Wing Galleries
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Louisa Davis Minot, Niagara Falls, 1818, oil on linen, Gift of Mrs. Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Sr., to the Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr. Collection, 1956.4
The Hudson River to Niagara Falls: 19th-Century American Landscape Paintings from the New-York Historical Society will include forty-five 19th-century American landscape paintings, with emphasis on works by artists of the Hudson River School. Rising to eminence in New York during the mid-nineteenth century, this group of artists sought to forge a self-consciously "American" landscape vision. Both were grounded in the exploration of the natural world as a resource for spiritual renewal and as an expression of cultural and national identity. Important landscape paintings by Hudson River School painters such as Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, John W. Casilear, Jasper Cropsey, Albert Bierstadt, and George Inness are among highlights of the exhibition.
Francis Augustus Silva, New York Harbor, N.Y., 1880, oil on canvas, Gift of the Pintard Fellows, 1975.29
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Thomas Chambers, Lake George and the Village of Caldwell, ca. 1850, oil on canvas, Thomas Jefferson Bryan Fund, 1977.13 The exhibition and related interpretive activities will contribute to community-wide programming developed to commemorate the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial, marking the 400th anniversary of Hudson and Champlain's voyages along the river and lake that bear their names, and the 200th anniversary of Robert Fulton's steamboat voyage on the Hudson, which initiated steam commerce on the river. The project is organized by the New-York Historical Society and The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (SDMA) at the State University of New York at New Paltz. |





