Hudson River School: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art - Softcover

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin; Ellis, Amy; Miesmer, Maureen; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum Of Art

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0918333202 ISBN 13: 9780918333209

Publisher: Yale Univ Pr, 2004

Synopsis

Hudson River School paintings are among America's most admired and well-loved artworks. Such artists as Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and Albert Bierstadt left a powerful legacy to American art, embodying in their epic works the reverence for nature and the national idealism that prevailed during the middle of the nineteenth century. This book features fifty-seven major Hudson River School paintings from the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, recognized as the most extensive and finest in the world. Gorgeously and amply illustrated, the book includes paintings by all the major figures of the Hudson River School. Each work is beautifully reproduced in full color and is accompanied by a concise description of its significance and historical background. The book also includes artists' biographies and a brief introduction to American nineteenth-century landscape painting and the Wadsworth Atheneum's unique role in collecting Hudson River pictures.

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About the Author:

Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser is deputy director, chief curator, and Krieble Curator of American Painting and Sculpture; Amy Ellis is assistant curator of American painting and sculpture; and Maureen Miesmer is curatorial assistant of American painting and sculpture, all at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0918333202
• ISBN 13: 9780918333209
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 169