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| Note created | Feb 13, 2026 |
A mid-19th century American landscape painting movement centered in New York, celebrated for its luminous, detailed depictions of the Hudson River Valley, Catskill Mountains, and the American wilderness. Key figures include Thomas Cole—whose The Oxbow contrasts wilderness and civilization—Frederic Edwin Church, whose Heart of the Andes extends the school’s vision to grand tropical landscapes, and Albert Bierstadt, whose The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak celebrates the American West. Rooted in Romanticism’s reverence for nature and the sublime, it expressed a distinctly American identity and a sense of spiritual wonder in the untamed landscape.