The Hudson River School The first coherent school of American art, the Hudson River painters, helped to shape the mythos of the American landscape Thomas Cole ( ) Asher B. Durand ( ) Frederick Church ( ) Albert Bierstadt ( )
Thomas Cole, “ The Falls of Kaaterskill ” (1826)
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow (View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, 1836)
Asher Durand, “ Kindred Spirits ” (1848)
Frederic Edwin Church, “ The Natural Bridge ” (1852)
Alfred Bierstadt, “ Emigrants Crossing the Plains ” (1867)
Alfred Bierstadt, “ Looking Up the Yosemite Valley ” (ca )
John Gast, American Progress