The Hudson River School
Subtitle: nature and the American vision
By: New-York Historical Society, Linda S. Ferber
Contributors: Ferber, Linda S.
Publisher: Skira Rizzoli
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780847832644
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: River views and rural retreats : New York, city on a river ; Up the river, New York harbor to the Erie Canal ; The Hudson on paper; title: America's favorite river, on canvas; title: The American grand tour : the Catskills ; Lake George and the Adirondack Mountains ; The White Mountains and New England ; Niagara Falls; title: American artists afield : Artist explorers of the West ; The Arctic ; South America; title: The Old World, Europe, and the course of empire : Dream of Arcadia, Americans in Italy ; Thomas Cole's The course of empire; title: Epilogue : a brief history of the museum collection.