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1 American Art and The Hudson River School
19th century, Antebellum

2 Thomas Cole: A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains, 1839
Cole believed the intellect was paramount in creating great works of art. He wrote, "If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced in either Painting or Poetry." (left) Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), Portrait of Thomas Cole, c. 1845, pencil on paper, John Wilmerding Collection; National Gallery of Art

3 Thomas Cole, Sunrise in the Catskills, 1826

4 Frederic Edwin Church, Fog off Mount Desert, 1850

5 Fitz Henry Lane, Stage Rocks and Western Shore of Gloucester Outer Harbor, 1857

6 Mount Desert Island, Maine (Location of Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park)

7 John James Audubon Whip-poor-will, 1830 Pileated Woodpecker, 1831

8 George Catlin, The White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas, 1844/1845


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