`American Splendor' celebrates the natural look Shining a light on Hudson River School painters

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: October 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Visual Arts / Review

American Splendor: Hudson River School Masterworks From the Wadsworth Atheneum Collection

At: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford,

through Dec. 31.

860-278-2670, wadsworthatheneum.org.

HARTFORD - Returning from one of his invigorating rambles through the Catskills, the artist Thomas Cole declared: "The painter of American scenery has, indeed, privileges superior to any other. All nature here is new to art."

The first European colonists found North America's dark woods haunted by "savages" and witches, but for Cole and his 19th-century artist pals, who would become known as the ...

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