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Hudson River School Paintings

HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL STYLE

Considered the first major American painting movement, the Hudson River School emerged in the first half of the 19th century with landscape paintings that celebrated the young country’s natural beauty. Most of its leading painters were based in New York City where they exchanged ideas and traveled to the nearby Hudson River Valley and Catskills Mountains to re-create their vistas. At a time when the city was increasingly dense, the Hudson River School artists extolled the vast and pristine qualities of the American landscape, a sentiment that would inform the conservation movement.

American art was dominated by portraiture and historical scenes before Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, began painting the Catskill Mountains in 1825. While the Hudson River School was informed by European art aesthetics, particularly the British focus on the sublime in nature, it was a style imbued with nationalism. The landscape painters who followed and studied under Cole would expand their focus from the Northeastern United States to places across the country, their work shared through prints and portfolios promoting an appreciation for the American wilderness — Niagara Falls, the mountain ranges that dot the American West and more — as the style blossomed during the mid-19th century.

Cole’s student Frederic Edwin Church as well as painters such as Albert Bierstadt, John Frederick Kensett, Asher Brown Durand and others became prominent proponents of the Hudson River School. The American art movement also had close ties to the literary world, including to authors like William Cullen Bryant, Henry David Thoreau and James Fenimore Cooper who wrote on similar themes. Although by the early 1900s the style had waned, and modernism would soon guide the following decades of art in the United States, the Hudson River School received renewed interest in the late 20th century for the dramatic way its artists portrayed the world.

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Style: Hudson River School
Dusk Forest Scene, Catskills by Lockwood DeForest (American, 1850-1932)
Located in New York, NY
"Dusk Forest Scene, Catskills," 1875 by Hudson River School painter Lockwood DeForest (American, 1850-1932) is oil on artists card-stock and measures 9.5 x 7 inches. The work is signed by DeForest, and dated May 13, 1875 at lower right. The work is framed in an elegant, period appropriate frame, and ready to hang. Lockwood de Forest was born in New York in 1850 to a prominent family. He grew up in Greenwich Village and on Long Island at the family summer estate in Cold Spring Harbor. As was customary for a cultivated family in the Gilded Age, the de Forests made frequent trips abroad. Excursions to the great museums, which were prominent on the de Forests agenda, deepened the young Lockwood's familiarity with European painting and sculpture. Though he had begun drawing and painting somewhat earlier, it was during a visit to Rome in 1868 that nineteen-year-old de Forest first began to study art seriously, taking painting lessons from the Italian landscapist Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (1844–1905). More importantly, on the same trip, Lockwood met one of America’s most celebrated painters, (and his maternal great- uncle by marriage) Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), who quickly became his mentor. DeForest accompanied Church on sketching trips around Italy and continued this practice when they both returned to America in 1869. Early on in his career, de Forest made a habit of recording the date and often the place of his oil sketches, as to create a visual diary of his travels. Lockwood’s profession as a landscape painter can be primarily attributed to Frederic E. Church and his belief in the young artist’s talent. De Forest often visited Church in the Hudson River community of Catskill where, in addition to sketching trips and afternoons of painting, he assisted with the architectural drawings and planning of Olana. In 1872, de Forest took a studio at the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York. During these formative years de Forest counted among his friend’s artists such as Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–80), George Henry Yewell (1830–1923), John Frederick Kensett (1816–72), Jervis McEntee (1828–91), and Walter Launt Palmer (1854–1932). Over the next decade de Forest experienced success as a painter. He exhibited for the first time at the National Academy of Design in 1872, and made two more painting trips abroad, in 1875–76 and 1877–78, traveling to the major continental capitals but also the Middle East and North Africa. His trip to the Middle East and the library at Church’s home, Olana, established his interest in design during his mid-twenties. From about 1878 to 1902, landscape painting was overshadowed by his activities and preoccupation with East Indian architecture and décor, a style that became quite fashionable in late nineteenth century America. From 1879-1883, de Forest founded Associated Artists along with Louis Comfort Tiffany, Candace Wheeler...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Board

Oil Flower Still Life of Morning Glories
By Sarah E. Davis
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
During her lifetime, Davis was best known for her exquisitely-painted floral still lifes, which she exhibited to much acclaim in New York from the mid-1870s to the mid-1880s. As an a...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mink Hollow Brook by Hudson River Artist Jervis McEntee (American, 1828-1891)
Located in New York, NY
"Mink Hollow Brook," by Hudson River School artist Jervis McEntee (1828-1891) depicts the lush foliage, and rocky terrain surrounding a Catskill brook. This 19th century oil paintin...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Turn of Century Yellowstone Falls Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Substantial and period painting of Yellowstone Falls by an unknown artist (American, 19th-20th Century), c.1880-1898. Unsigned. With a plaque "Yellow...
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1890s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Tropical Sunset, Exotic South America
Located in Greenwich, CT
This is classic Norton Bush and one of our few Americans who traveled to South and Central America at this date to do these exotic scenes. He employed a Hudson River School techniqu...
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1890s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mount Hood From Clear Lake, Early 20th Century Large-Scale Panoramic Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Mount Hood From Clear Lake, Early 20th Century Large-Scale Panoramic Landscape Large-scale panoramic oil painting landscape of Mount Hood from Clear Lake by William M. Lemos (Ameri...
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1930s Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Linen, Stretcher Bars

View on the Hudson, the Catskills in the Distance
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: F.A. SILVA.
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Summer along the Boquet River, 1875 by Julie Hart Beers (American, 1835-1913)
By Julie Hart Beers
Located in New York, NY
Painted by Hudson River School artist Julie Hart Beers (1835-1913), "Summer along the Boquet River" is oil on canvas and measures 9 x 11 inches. It is signed and dated 1875 at the lo...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Scale Early 20th Century Bucolic Mt. Hood Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous landscape with two cows drinking water in a pond with Mt. Hood in background by listed artist William M. Lemos (American, 1861-1942). Signed "W.M. Lemos" lower right. Presented in vintage gilt-toned frame that shows wear (included as-is). Condition: Good: previously owned and used, with little or no signs of wear and is in good condition. No structural issues. Image size: 29"H x 49"W. Born in New York, Professor Lemos moved to San Francisco in 1887 where he established a studio at 106 Geary Street. He later moved to Santa Cruz in 1896, where he settled, painting murals for many local businessmen and the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. As a boy Lemos earned money by wandering the streets and painting on request. Arriving in San Francisco in 1887, he established a studio at 106 Geary. With his wife Mabel, he worked in Los Angeles for a few years in the 1890s. After settling in Santa Cruz in 1896, he painted murals for many local businessmen. When the original Beach Casino was built there at the Boardwalk in 1904, Lemos was the first concessionaire and worked there for nearly 40 years. On his platform in the Casino, Lemos did paintings of redwoods, still lifes, forest fires, beach scenes, and marines. Many of his oils were done on redwood slabs which were popular with the tourists; in the early days these paintings sold for one dollar and up depending on the size of the work. After his vision failed and he was unable to paint, his last years were mostly spent fishing off the Municipal Pier with a friend who baited his hook for him because he could no longer see. In the March 27, 1941 Santa Cruz Sentinel News Lemos reminisced, "Them were the days when the Boardwalk was only twelve feet long and when business got slow I picked up my shotgun and went across the street and shot ducks where the Casa del Rey Hotel now stands." Exhibited: Calif. State Fair, 1885; Mechanics' Inst. (SF), 1889. In: Santa Cruz City Museum; Wawona Hotel (Yosemite). Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940" His mother was Julia Lemos, a Chicago artist famous for her depiction of the Chicago fire, “Two of Julia’s children became successful artists. Her eldest son, William, was a naïve still life, landscape, and mural painter. As a young boy in New York, he would wander the streets, earning money for the family, by ‘painting on request.’ At age 26, William moved to San Francisco, California. He opened an art studio and kept it running until he moved to Santa Cruz with his wife, Mabel, in 1896. During this period, he worked as a fresco artist painting ‘murals for many local businessmen.’ Exhibited California State Fair, Sacramento, 32nd annual, per Sacramento Daily Union, September 9, 1885. and article goes on to say “William Lemos and wife, Sacramento – Art school exhibits in which are shown such a variety of designs in decorative art, flower painting, and ornamentation, that one must give time to the examination.” Exhibited Mechanics Institute, San Francisco, 1889. “Lemos and his wife were in Fresno California 1890...
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Early 20th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Antique American Sunset Landscape Hudson River School Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Important framed 19th century Hudson River School landscape. Possibly estate stamped. Housed in an impressive period frame. Oil on canvas.
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1860s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

THE WATERFALL - American School -Italian Landscape Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
THE WATERFALL - Oil on canvas cm. 55x70 by Paolo De Robertis, Italy 2002. The painting is inspired by the paintings of Thomas Hill, an American landscape painter belonging to the H...
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Early 2000s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Into the Night
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower left in arrowhead: RA Blakelock.
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Gordon Setter in a Landscape by Otto Norquist (American: 1859-1906)
Located in New York, NY
Otto Norquist (1859-1906) "Gordon Setter in a Landscape, 1890" Oil on canvas 22 x 27 inches Signed and dated 1890, lower right Otto Norquist was born in...
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Interior of a Stable" William Hart, Hudson River School Antique, Boy and Horse
Located in New York, NY
William M. Hart (1823 - 1894) Interior of a Stable Oil on canvas 17 x 12 inches Provenance William Macbeth Gallery, New York Mrs. Mabel Brady Garvan Collection Christie's New York, Sporting Art, November 28, 1995, Lot 116 Ann Carter Stonesifer, Maryland Estate of above Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina, January 27 2018, Lot 777 Exhibited New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Life in America, April 24 - October 29, 1939, no. 123, illustrated. New York, Macbeth Gallery, 1892: Sixtieth Anniversary Exhibition, April 1952, p. 5, no. 18. Literature Turner Reuter Jr, Animal and Sporting Artists in America, Middleburg, Virginia, 2008, p. 306. Gary Stiles, William Hart: Catalogue Raisonné and Artistic Biography, no. 1126, illustrated. It should be noted that the Francis Patrick Garvan and Mrs. Mabel Brady Garvan collection, of which this painting was a part of, was one of the foremost American Art collections and now makes up a large part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery collections. Born in 1823 in Paisley, Scotland, William Hart emigrated with his parents to the United States at the age of nine and settled in Albany, New York. It was here that Hart first began his artistic training when he was placed under the tutelage of Messrs, Eaton & Gilbert, the prestigious coach-makers from Troy, New York. During this time, Hart learned how to decorate coach panels, covering them with either landscapes or figurative compositions. At the age of seventeen, he was eagerly contemplating an artist’s profession. Consequently, he left the mechanical trade of coach-making and began expanding his artistic pursuits to more refined endeavors. Hart followed coach-making with decorating window shades and later developed an interest in portraiture. Around 1840, he established his first formal studio in his father’s woodshed in Troy. There, he created many likenesses of individuals, affording him a nominal income. Once, he remarked that he felt prouder over his first fee of five dollars for painting a head then for the larger sums he would command later in his career. Nevertheless, his wages from portraits during this early period proved insufficient. Thus, he expanded into landscape painting, allowing him to barter his works or sell them for modest prices. In 1842, Hart moved to Michigan in an attempt to further his success; portraiture remained his primary means of support. Unfortunately, his experiences in the West were disappointing. Hart spent three years living a rough existence until he finally returned to Albany in 1845. Upon his return, he fully devoted himself to the art of landscape painting. Despite his failing health, he worked diligently to perfect his skill until 1849 when he traveled abroad to his native land of Scotland. This trip was made possible through the generosity of his patron and advisor, Dr. Ormsby of Albany. For three years, he studied in the open-air, creating brilliant sketches of the Scottish Highlands and the surrounding British Isles. Returning to Albany once more in 1852, Hart enjoyed improved health and was reinvigorated with purpose. The following year, he moved to New York and opened a studio, promoting himself as a specialist in landscape painting. Hart became a regular contributor to the National Academy of Design. His works received a great deal of attention from artists and connoisseurs alike, all of whom praised him for his fresh, self-taught style. In 1855, he was designated as an associate of the National Academy of Design; three years later he was elected to Academician. In 1865, he was unanimously chosen to be the first president of the Brooklyn Academy of Design. It was during his tenure there that he delivered his famous lecture The Field and Easel, which emphasized the distinguishing principles of landscape art in America. Hart argued that landscape painters should express the “look of the place” being depicted.Critics during the 1870s noted his sensitive balance between capturing a strict “real” interpretation of nature and that of a more “ideal” sentimental tone. For instance, in 1869, Putnam Magazine noted that Hart brought back “exquisite studies” of the surrounding Tappan...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sunset over the River
Located in New York, NY
Monogrammed lower right: AB
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Paper, Oil, Board

High Bridge and Croton Waterworks (Harlem River)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Stunning Hudson River School landscape by George Lafayette Clough (1824-1901). High Bridge and Croton Waterworks, Harlem River, ca. 1870. Oil on canvas measures 14 x 21 inches; 26 x 33 inches in original frame. Signed lower left. Old repair of small diagonal puncture measuring 1/2 inch in length to the right of ship sail. Otherwise no damage or conservation to painting. Original frame has several areas of damage and loss and will require conservation. George Lafayette Clough was born September 18, 1824, in Auburn, New York, and was that city's leading landscapist and, known as a Hudson River School painter, became Auburn's most noted resident painter of the mid-century. His mother was widowed shortly after his birth, and he was raised without paternal influence. He had little formal education and was employed by the age of ten. By age fifteen he had taken up painting, and his first and informal art influence came from the portraitist, Randall Palmer. In 1844 Clough opened his own studio in Auburn. About that time Charles Loring Elliott...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil

Oil Snow Landscape titled "Gathering Wood for Winter, New Haven, CT"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
George Henry Durrie's painting "Gathering Wood for Winter, New Haven, CT" captures the essence of 19th-century rural America with its picturesque depiction of a serene winter landsca...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Enjoying Old Times
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Enjoying Old Times" by Charles Baker captures a poignant and joyful moment in the life of an older man, immersed in the beauty of nature. The painting features the man in the midst of a hike, his weathered walking stick in one hand, and a bottle of champagne in the other. His gaze is fixed on the bottle, a focused and content expression playing on his lips, suggesting a celebration of memories or perhaps a spontaneous toast to the present moment. Baker’s use of warm, earthy tones highlights the natural surroundings, with the man standing against a backdrop of greenery, a rocky path, and a clear, open sky. The composition is rich in detail, from the rugged texture of the man’s clothes...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Under the Palisades, 1899
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Francis Cropsey paints a view out from the Palisades onto the Hudson River in his artwork entitled, “Under the Palisades.”
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hudson River School Seascape at Sunset
Located in Soquel, CA
Luminous Hudson River School landscape of sunset over water with red buoy in foreground and sailing ships in background in the style of Alfred Thompson Briche...
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1880s Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Linen

Autumn on the Hudson River by Arthur Parton (American, 1842-1914)
Located in New York, NY
"Autumn on the Hudson River" by Hudson River School painter Arthur Parton (American, 1842-1914) is oil on canvas mounted to board. The painting measures 18 1/8 x 34 1/16 inches, and ...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Joachim Ferdinand Richardt, River Baptism
By Joachim Ferdinand Richardt
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This mid-19th-century oil painting by Danish-American artist Joachim Ferdinand Richardt (1819-1895) depicts a congregation observing a river baptism, probably in the Mississippi River. In 2009, at President Obama’s Inauguration luncheon, a panoramic view of Niagara was selected as the backdrop to his speech. It’s a breathtaking image, capturing the sublimity of the American Falls and the Horseshoe Falls in all their iconic majesty. The ‘Maid-of-the-Mist’, negotiates the rapids, a mere speck within a broad expanse of water. While beyond, a colossal sheet of spray is sharply illuminated through passing clouds. It was painted by the son of a bookbinder, a humble Danish artist who travelled extensively across the United States to document its nature, buildings and civilization. Admired in his own lifetime, this unassuming adventurer produced scores of resplendent vistas but also numerous vignettes documenting everyday activities. Joachim Ferdinand Richardt was initially destined to become a carpenter but, thankfully, enrolled at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under three distinguished masters. Blessed with a skill for drawing, he was awarded medals and in 1839 began exhibiting at the prestigious Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition. In 1841, the Danish Royal Family acquired one of his works and six years later granted him a five-year stipend. Richardt trained at a time of exceptional creative output whereby Denmark was developing a clearer identity. Dubbed ‘National Romanticism’, artists were extolling their country’s natural beauty, while also celebrating humble folk life within rural environs. Stylistically, their work is somewhat comparable with German Romanticism...
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1860s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Autumn Landscape
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderful Autumn landscape likely of the Hudson River Valley by the revered American artist William Louis Sonntag (1822-1900). Sonntag was born near Pittsburgh, PA and moved to Cincinnati, OH in the 1840’s to study art. He studied for a brief time with G. Frankenstein at the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Art and his idealized paintings of American wilderness and visionary paintings of imagined European ruins were commercially successful. He traveled twice to Europe in the 1850’s to improve his skills, eventually settling in New York City. He joined the National Academy of Design, where he exhibited his works for forty years. His mature works identify him with the Hudson River School of landscape painters. A romantic and naturalistic painter of his surroundings, Sonntag also created idealized paintings of Roman ruins, recalling his European trips of earlier years. Sonntag was an Associate (1860) and Academician (1861) at the National Academy of Design, and a member of the American Watercolor Society, Artists Fund Society, and the American Art Union...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Walking Along a Rocky Shore
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
With masterful precision and a keen eye for atmosphere, Frederic Rondel captures the rugged beauty of the coastline in Walking Along a Rocky Shore. The painting depicts a windswept s...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

View by a Lake
By Ernest Parton
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Ernest Parton
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil

“Worcester, Massachusetts”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on wood panel painting of a Worcester, Massachusetts view by local resident artist Mabel Blake. Signed M. Blake lower left. Circa 1880. Condition is good. The bucolic scene depicts a man in a boat...
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1880s Hudson River School Paintings

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Board, Oil

In the Afterglow (Contemporary Atmospheric Landscape Color Field Painting)
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern Luminist, Hudson River School landscape painting on canvas of the expansive view over the Hudson River as observed at the top of Olana, the historic home of Frederic Church "In the Afterglow" by Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, painted in 2021 Horizontal landscape painting, 48 x 60 x 1 inches unframed with white painted sides wired on reverse for easy hanging Artist's signature is located on lower left Acclaimed artist of the Hudson Valley, Jane Bloodgood, takes her painting to a new level with a new work entitled "In the Afterglow". Her interpretation of this very iconic view (observed from the top of Olana, the historic home of Frederic Church located near Hudson, NY) is set during the very quiet moments of a summer's evening when the sun has dipped beyond the mountains. The crystal blue sky illuminates with the sun's setting rays; a golden band of yellow haze otherwise known as "The Venus Belt" is an atmospheric phenomenon only visible shortly before sunrise or right before sunset. The water reflects the pink and purple glow that forms near the horizon; the dusty shadows of trees tower over the water's edge. We marvel at how simply Jane captures a complex phenomenon, evidence of her unparalleled ability to paint light and endow her work with luminosity. Yet this painting succeeds not only in its representation of the actual landscape and the awe produced by the experience, but also in its contemporary abstraction of atomsphere. The big, open blue sky is stacked with the colors of the sunset against the horizon, calling to mind a Rothko or the other great color field painters who achieve mood and depth from singular color. About the work: Painter Jane Bloodgood-Abrams has become one of the area’s most celebrated artists, gracing viewers with her compositions of sky, river, and earth. Being less concerned with documenting specific scenes, Bloodgood-Abrams is focused on capturing nature’s essence, “the deeply profound moments, where there is a connection to a vital energy.” Her process begins with being in nature, where she allows the emotional energy of the landscape to filter through her psyche. The memory is then translated onto canvas after being worked over a period of time with layers of paint that is applied, wiped away, and reworked. The result is a radiantly dramatic remembrance of Bloodgood-Abram’s encounter with “something beyond everyday life”. The artist’s final hope is for these images to evoke remembrances within the viewer's own personal relationship with nature. Artist Biography: Jane Bloodgood Abrams was born in Queens, New York. She received her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from the College of Saint Rose in Albany, in 1985. Three years later, she earned a Master’s of Fine Arts at the State University of New York in New Paltz. Now she paints in the Hudson River Valley and the Berkshires. EDUCATION Master of Fine Arts Painting - (cum laude) State University of New York at New Paltz 1988 Bachelor of Studio Arts - (cum laude) College of Saint Rose, Albany 1985 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2015 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2014 Mark Gruber Gallery, New Paltz, NY Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2013 Christopher Clark Fine Art, San Francisco, CA The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA 2012 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN The Storefront Gallery, Kingston, NY "Beyond the Real" 2011 The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY Locust Grove State Historical Site, Poughkeepsie, NY 2010 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2009 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2008 DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Meyer East Gallery, Santa Fe, NM The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2006 Mendenhall-Sobieski Gallery, Los Angeles, CA DFN Gallery, New York, NY Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2005 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN 2004 Albert Shahinian Galleries, Poughkeepsie, NY Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2003 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY Living Room Gallery, Kingston, NY River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN 2002 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2001 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY Artforms Gallery, Albany, NY 2000 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY Mark Gruber Gallery, "Romancing the Landscape" New Paltz, NY 1999 River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN 1998 Alan Sheppard Gallery, Piermont, NY "New Traditions" 1997 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY SELECTED JURIED AND INVITATIONAL MULTI-ARTIST EXHIBITIONS: 2016 Byrdcliffe’s Legacy: An ode to Nature and Place, Kleinert Art Center, Woodstock, NY Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, Hyde Collection Museum, Glens Falls, NY ARTBAR Gallery, Kingston, NY 2015 The Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville, NY Jessica Hagen Fine Art, Newport, RI 2014 Jessica Hagen Fine Art, Newport, RI “Riverscapes,” The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA "Far and Wide" Regional Juried Exhibition, Woodstock Art Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY 2013 Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, Hyde Collection Museum, Glens Falls, NY Far and Wide" Regional Juried Exhibition, Woodstock Art Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY 2012 "Riverscapes," The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA “The Great Hudson River Exhibition,” Mill Street...
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2010s Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

New England Coastal Scene with Figures
Located in New York, NY
Monogramed and dated lower right: JF.K. / ‘64.
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Sketch of Derwentwater
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamp on verso; on stretcher bar: SEP 9th 1855
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil

Scene in the White Mountains by Alfred Thompson Bricher (American, 1837-1908)
Located in New York, NY
Painted by Hudson River School artist Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837-1908) , "Scene in the White Mountains" is oil on panel, measures 5.5 x 9.75 inches, and is signed and dated 1864 a...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Livestock Landscape
By Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven, a luminary of 19th-century Belgian art, wielded his brush with unparalleled mastery, capturing the timeless allure of pastoral landscapes and noble anim...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Greek Ruins"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Lower Right Known for his marine, history, and portrait paintings, Franklin Briscoe was born in Baltimore, Maryland and at age four moved with his family to Philadelphia where he later became a student of Edward Moran and where eventually he settled his studio. Briscoe made extended ocean voyages, including trips to Europe where he saw much painting in galleries, and from these adventures and observations developed his landmark paintings of the ocean and ships in all kinds of weather conditions. In 1885, he painted an historical mural that was in ten panels, a total of 230 feet long, and 13 feet tall--"The Battle of Gettysburg...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19th Century Hudson River School Landscape after Richard Goodwin
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming Hudson River school antique oil painting of a sailboat on a lake, circa 1880-90. Signed "R. Labarr." after Richard LaBarre Goodwin...
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1880s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hudson Highlands by Lockwood DeForest (American, 1850-1932)
Located in New York, NY
"Hudson Highlands," by Hudson River School painter Lockwood DeForest (American, 1850-1932) is oil on artists card-stock and measures 9.5 x 14 inches. The work is framed in an elegant, period appropriate frame, and ready to hang. Lockwood de Forest was born in New York in 1850 to a prominent family. He grew up in Greenwich Village and on Long Island at the family summer estate in Cold Spring Harbor. As was customary for a cultivated family in the Gilded Age, the de Forests made frequent trips abroad. Excursions to the great museums, which were prominent on the de Forests agenda, deepened the young Lockwood's familiarity with European painting and sculpture. Though he had begun drawing and painting somewhat earlier, it was during a visit to Rome in 1868 that nineteen-year-old de Forest first began to study art seriously, taking painting lessons from the Italian landscapist Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (1844–1905). More importantly, on the same trip, Lockwood met one of America’s most celebrated painters, (and his maternal great- uncle by marriage) Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), who quickly became his mentor. DeForest accompanied Church on sketching trips around Italy and continued this practice when they both returned to America in 1869. Early on in his career, de Forest made a habit of recording the date and often the place of his oil sketches, as to create a visual diary of his travels. Lockwood’s profession as a landscape painter can be primarily attributed to Frederic E. Church and his belief in the young artist’s talent. De Forest often visited Church in the Hudson River community of Catskill where, in addition to sketching trips and afternoons of painting, he assisted with the architectural drawings and planning of Olana. In 1872, de Forest took a studio at the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York. During these formative years de Forest counted among his friend’s artists such as Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–80), George Henry Yewell (1830–1923), John Frederick Kensett (1816–72), Jervis McEntee (1828–91), and Walter Launt Palmer (1854–1932). Over the next decade de Forest experienced success as a painter. He exhibited for the first time at the National Academy of Design in 1872, and made two more painting trips abroad, in 1875–76 and 1877–78, traveling to the major continental capitals but also the Middle East and North Africa. His trip to the Middle East and the library at Church’s home, Olana, established his interest in design during his mid-twenties. From about 1878 to 1902, landscape painting was overshadowed by his activities and preoccupation with East Indian architecture and décor, a style that became quite fashionable in late nineteenth century America. From 1879-1883, de Forest founded Associated Artists along with Louis Comfort Tiffany, Candace Wheeler...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Board

Chapel of the Madonna di Vitaleta, original realist Italian landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
This original Hudson River School realist interpretation of the Chapel of the Madonna di Vitela, still standing in exceedingly picturesque Tuscany invites you into the heart of one ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil

"Ship Portrait, " William Edward Norton, Seascape Maritime Painting, New England
Located in New York, NY
William Edward Norton (1843 - 1916) Ship Portrait, 1876 Oil on canvas 10 x 16 inches Signed and dated lower left Born in Boston, William Norton became a noted marine painter, stirred by his youth when he sailed on family-owned ships. He studied at the Lowell Institute in Boston, and with George Inness, and then established a studio in Boston. In the early 1870s, he went to Paris and became a student with Chevreuse and A. Vollon, and then he settled in London where he exhibited throughout the last quarter of the 19th century. His reputation there was based on his scenes of the Thames River, and ocean and coastal views. In 1901, he and his wife returned to the United States and settled in New York City. He also painted at Monhegan Island, Maine, where a treacherous ledge on the southern side of the island is named "Norton's Ledge" for him. He was a member of the Boston Art Club with whom he exhibited from 1873 to 1909. He also exhibited with the Pennsylvania Academy, the Royal Academy in London, the Paris Salon, the 1893 Chicago Exposition...
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1870s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Oil Summer Landscape
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
James Renwick Brevoort (1832–1918) was an influential American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, a mid-19th century art movement known for its romantic portr...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Board

Through the Woods by Hudson River School Artist William Ongley (1836-1890)
Located in New York, NY
Painted by Hudson River School artist William Ongley, "Through the Woods" is oil on canvas and measures 14 x 10 inches. The painting is signed by Ongley at the lower right. The work ...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vista From West Campton, New Hampshire
By Frederick Williams
Located in Milford, NH
A fine New Hampshire landscape by American artist Frederick Dickinson Williams (1829–1915). Frederick Dickinson Williams was born into a patrician household in Boston, Massachusetts and attended the prestigious Boston Latin School before entering Harvard University in 1846. After graduation and until 1874, Williams taught drawing and painting in the Boston Public School System as a Professor of Drawing until 1874. Williams and his wife, the former Lucia M. Hunt, of Newburyport, relocated to Paris, France, where both studied the new French art and painted landscapes and genre scenes in their studio until 1888, when Lucia died in Paris. Williams returned to the United States and settled in Boston, opening a studio in late 1888. He continued to paint in the Boston area with regular trips to the White Mountains of New Hampshire and other wilderness areas where he produced a large body of French-inspired landscapes in the manner of Corot and other contemporary French painters. In 1904, a serious fire in his Boston studio destroyed all of his inventory, including a number of award-winning canvases from his Paris sojourn. Despite this significant loss, he continued to paint. During his long and successful career, Williams exhibited his work at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Washington DC Art...
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Covered Bridge Deep in the New England Forest
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Covered Bridge Deep in the New England Forest is a captivating work that exemplifies the essence of the Hudson River School's artistic vision. This painting portrays a covered bridge...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Niagara Falls" Victor de Grailly, Hudson River School, New York Landscape
By Victor de Grailly
Located in New York, NY
Victor de Grailly Niagara Falls, circa 1840-45 Oil on canvas 28 7/8 x 21 1/4 inches Provenance: Mark Borghi Fine Art, New York Private Collection, Nyack, New York Little is known a...
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1840s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Panoramic YOSEMITE VALLEY Western California Encampment Landscape Figures
Located in New York, NY
Joseph John Englehart (1867-1915) was a prolific American landscape painter who painted in realist style. He was born on June 14, 1867 in Chicago, Illi...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil

Camel's Hump, Vermont, 1877 by Laura Woodward (American, 1834-1926)
Located in New York, NY
Painted by Hudson River School artist Laura Woodward (1834-1926), "Camel's Hump, Vermont" 1877 is oil on canvas and measures 14 x 24 inches. It is signe...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Birch Tree in Maine, " Hudson River School Antique Landscape, White Mountains
Located in New York, NY
Harrison Bird Brown (1831 - 1915) Birch Tree in Maine, New England, 19th Century Oil on canvas 25 x 13 1/8 inches Initialed lower left Provenance: Portland International Galleries, Maine Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, Jr., Saratoga Springs, New York and Lexington, Kentucky (President of Brooklyn Borough Gas Company) Private Collection, Chicago Exhibited: Portland Maine, Portland Museum of Art, 58 Maine Paintings 1820-1920: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, Jr., May 20 - June 20, 1976, cat. no. 11. The above catalogue listing this vertical landscape will be included with your purchase. "Mr. Brown has succeeded fully in accomplishing that which Mr. John Ruskin, in speaking of J. M. W. Turner's sea views, said no painter had yet accomplished; that is, the representation of the creamy foam which the storm lashes up from the waves along a rocky shore." Harrison Bird Brown was born in 1831 in Portland, Maine, and is best known for his White Mountain landscapes and marine paintings of Maine...
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Rapelyea House, New York, William Rickarby Miller, Hudson River School Landscape
Located in New York, NY
William Rickarby Miller Rapelyea House, New York, 1884 Signed and dated lower left Oil on canvas 20 x 30 inches Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, New York Born in Staindrop, County Durham, England, he was a portrait and landscape painter, especially appreciated for watercolor painting, which he sold through the American Art Union...
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1880s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Summer at the Farm by James McDougal Hart (American, 1828-1901)
Located in New York, NY
"Summer at the Farm," by Hudson River School painter James McDougal Hart (American, 1833-1915) is oil on canvas and measures 14 x 24 inches. It is signed and dated by Hart at the low...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Oil Portrait of Child and Baby Sisters Playing
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This beautiful oil on canvas painting of two sisters playing by the famous American Artist John G Brown has been lined. There is a slight touch up, and i...
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Oil Landscape of West on Snake River
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Cyrenius Hall was an artist who painted Western landscapes in a luminous style. He first went to Portland, Oregon in 1853 and 1854 over the Oregon Trail. From there he executed views...
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Early 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Fishing by the Stream
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right
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1860s Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Southern Landscape Oil Painting Hudson River School
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Copyright 2023 Michael F. Meyer All rights Reserved. This painting, signed RSD on right side, has been verified by the late expert on Robert S. Duncanson, Joseph Ketner and comes with an authentication letter. This painting has exhibited and is published in Robert S. Duncanson and His Courageous Southern Travels. This painting is one of the many beautiful southern landscape scenes that Robert S. Duncanson painted in his courageous travels south. "Robert S. Duncanson born in 1819, was an African American Hudson River School artist who painted the south before the Civil War, until his death in 1872. Although widely famous during his lifetime, this forgotten artist’s courageous journey through the antebellum south has never before been exhibited or researched until now. His brilliance was in creating captivating landscape paintings that come alive to the viewer, by focusing on the minute details of nature and of the stories he wished to communicate. Robert Duncanson...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Oil Landscape with Two Girls titled "Girls Waiting for Father"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Virginia Granbery (1831-1921) was an accomplished American artist known for her work in watercolor and oil paintings. Granbery's works predominantly featured landscapes, floral studi...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

At Pasture
Located in New York, NY
Leading Hudson River School Painter Famous for New England Views
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Sailing Through Choppy Waters at Sunset
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Sailing Through Choppy Waters at Sunset" captures the dramatic beauty of the American maritime experience, evoking both the power of nature and the resilience of the human spirit. T...
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hawley, Pennsylvania
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: RABlakelock
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Penolver Head, Lizard Peninsula Landscape
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This dynamic seascape by Charles Ernest Butler captures the rugged cliffs of Penolver Head on the Lizard Peninsula, where land meets the vast, glistening ocean. The bold, expressive ...
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Early 20th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Indian Encampment
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right in arrowhead: R.A. Blakelock
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Warning
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Edward Lamson Henry (American, (1841 - 1919)) “The Warning” Grisaille on paper mounted on board, signed lower left ‘E L Henry’ (partially obscured by frame) ...
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Board, Oil, Laid Paper

Portrait of Grandmother and Grandson titled "Peeling Apples"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
John George Brown (1831–1913) was a prominent British-born American painter, renowned for his genre paintings that vividly depict the everyday life of chi...
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hudson River School paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Hudson River School paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Ralph Albert Blakelock, Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Jasper Francis Cropsey, and John Frederick Kensett. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Hudson River School paintings, so small editions measuring 4 inches across are also available. Prices for paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $400 and tops out at $875,000, while the average work sells for $14,933.

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