USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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: -In general, Hudson River School artists believed that nature in the form of the American landscape was a reflection of God, though they varied in the depth of their religious conviction. They were inspired by European masters such as Claude Lorrain, John Constable, and J. M. W. Turner.

Detailed explanation-3: -An outgrowth of the Romantic movement, the Hudson River school was the first native school of painting in the United States; it was strongly nationalistic both in its proud celebration of the natural beauty of the American landscape and in the desire of its artists to become independent of European schools of painting.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Hudson River School paintings inspired a reverence for nature and influenced generations of artists, including Hudson River School elites like Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, Samuel Colman, and Jasper Cropsey.

Detailed explanation-5: -Active for most of the 19th century, the Hudson River School celebrated the American wilderness in landscape paintings of American art. This loose movement depicted ordinary rivers, mountains, and forests, as well as major monuments like Niagara Falls and Yellowstone.