Hudson River School

The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a society of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. The paintings typically depict the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, including the Catskill, Adirondack, and White Mountains. Works by the second generation of artists allied with the scholastic expanded to enhance other locales in New England, the Maritimes, the American West, and South America.