USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The 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 Thomas Cole (1801–1848) and flourished until about the time of the Centennial.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. The paintings typically depict the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, including the Catskill, Adirondack, and White Mountains.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thomas Cole (1801-1848) Founder of the Hudson River School of painting. Thomas Cole was born in 1801 at Bolton, Lancashire in Northwestern England and emigrated with his family to the United States in 1818. In 1825, Cole discovered the haunting beauty of the Catskill wilderness.

Detailed explanation-4: -The British-born painter Thomas Cole is widely acknowledged as the founder of the Hudson River School, having hiked high into the Catskill Mountains of New York State to paint the first landscapes of the region in 1825.