FRYE MOUNTS SMALL JEWELS OF HUDSON RIVER ART.(Arts and Entertainment)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: January 27, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

The first real art movement Americans could call their own was the Hudson River School of landscape painters, active on the East Coast from 1825 to 1878.

Before that, painters were useful for making portraits of family members and their possessions. Anybody who wanted more went to Europe. Eighteenth-century America was a practical place, populated by those who had more important things to do than contemplate the complexities and refinements of aesthetic objects.

Led by Thomas Cole, the Hudson River painters were, first of all, great salesmen. They convinced their ...

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