{"product_id":"the-hudson-river-school-the-landscape-art-of-bierstadt-cole-church-durand-heade-and-twenty-other-artists","title":"THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL The Landscape Art of Bierstadt, Cole, Church, Durand, Heade, and Twenty Other Artists","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Landscape Art of Bierstadt, Cole, Church, Durand, Heade, and Twenty Other Artists. Enjoy the beauty and variety of the American experience through the work of these great artists. With stunning full-color plates, additional black-and-white illustrations, and concise, authoritative text, these unique, beautifully produced studies present the life, work and achievements of America's greatest painters.\n\nThe Hudson River School was America’s first true artistic fraternity. Its name was coined to identify a group of New York City-based landscape painters that emerged about 1850 under the influence of the English émigré \u003cstrong\u003eThomas Cole\u003c\/strong\u003e (1801–1848) and flourished until about the time of the Centennial. Because of the inspiration exerted by his work, Cole is usually regarded as the “father” or “founder” of the school, though he himself played no special organizational or fostering role except that he was the teacher of\u003cstrong\u003e Frederic Edwin Church\u003c\/strong\u003e (1826–1900). Along with \u003cstrong\u003eAlbert Bierstadt\u003c\/strong\u003e (1830–1902), Church was the most successful painter of the school until its decline. After Cole’s death in 1848, his older contemporary \u003cstrong\u003eAsher B. Durand\u003c\/strong\u003e (1796–1886) became the acknowledged leader of the New York landscape painters; in 1845, he rose to the presidency of the National Academy of Design, the reigning art institution of the period.\n\nThe New York landscape painters were not only stylistically but socially coherent. Most belonged to the National Academy, were members of the same clubs, especially the Century, and, by 1858, many of them even worked at the same address, the Studio Building on West Tenth Street, the first purpose-built artist workspace in the city. Eventually, several of the artists built homes on the Hudson River. Though the earliest references to the term “Hudson River School” in the 1870s were disparagingly aimed, the label has never been supplanted and fairly characterizes the artistic body, its New York headquarters, its landscape subject matter, and often literally its subject.\n\n\u003cstrong\u003eOut of Print.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eCondition: Fine. \u003c\/strong\u003eVery light spine corner bumps. Dustjacket has scuffs at the front bottom edge and at the top left. Also has light edge wear.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gramercy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59643519861022,"sku":"RB7033","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/RB7033-hudson-river-school.jpg?v=1784516616","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/the-hudson-river-school-the-landscape-art-of-bierstadt-cole-church-durand-heade-and-twenty-other-artists","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}