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Monday, February 27, 2012

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This painting was painted by the great artist Thomas Cole. Cole was an English born American born on February first 1801. In 1818 his fam...
Friday, February 17, 2012

Albert Bierstadt

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Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter, who was best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. In his works, B...

The Last of the Buffalo

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This Painting, named "The Last of the Buffalo," was painted by Albert Bierstadt. Albert Bierdtadt was born January 7th 1830, he w...

Frederic Edwin Church, Twilight Wilderness

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Frederic Edwin Church was born on May 4, 1826 in Hartford, Connecticut. He painted landscapes. He was wealthy due to his fathers prof...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

The Coming Storm

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This picture was painted by Albert Bierstadt. It was put in the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover in 1869 the same year that the tr...

Albert Bierstadt

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Albert Bierstadt was born on January 7, 1830. He was a German American painter and was best known for his landscapes of the American West. ...

Classical Landscape With Ruins

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Robert Duncanson was an African American Painter that came from Hudson River School. I see all the textures of this picture, giving the smo...

Landscape with Ruined Tower

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Thomas Cole was an English-born American artist. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that fl...

"Sunny Morning on Hudson River"

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This painting was created by Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School. Cole was born in England and came to America when he was 18 years...

Spirit of War- Jasper Francis

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This picture has very vivid colors that complement each other in many ways. The brightness of the sky does a great job contrasting with the ...

The Catskills

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Asher Brown Durand was born August 21, 1796 in Maplewood, New Jersey. He was an American painter of the Hudson River School. His interest ...

Thomas Cole

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Thomas Cole was an English born American artist. He is the founder of the Hudson River School, which was an American art movement in the 19...

Thomas Doughty, Ruins in Landscape, 1828

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Thomas Doughty, born July 19, 1793, was an artist of the Hudson River school. He was a landscapist and contributed to the interest of the ...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Thomas Doughty

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Thomas Doughty, who was much recognized as "one of the pioneers of our landscape Art," was born in Philadelphia in July 19, 1793. ...

Shoshone Falls

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Albert Bierstadt Yellow Stone Park He was born in Germany and soon moved to Massachusetts in 1833. He developed a taste for early when he...

Thomas Hill

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Thomas Hill was born in England. At the age of 15, his family moved to America and settled in Massachusetts . As a student, he went to th...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

A Gorge in the Mountains

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This painting painted by Sanford Robinson Gifford was painted to show the beautiful view of the valley. The depth perception of the mountain...

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This picture shows the troubled times of the people who went on the Oregon trail. It depicts the end of a long day of travel as they are j...
Monday, February 6, 2012

Sunny Morning on Hudson River

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This picture makes me feel calm. It makes me want to just sit down and relax for a few days; not doing anything, not answering anything, all...

Hudson River Painting-Tywkiwdbi

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This is a painting titled Tywkiwdbi and was painted by Thomas Cole. It is a painting of Native Americans practicing a ritual on a mountain t...

View of The United States

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This is a beautiful painting of America, the water is raging while everything around it is calm. The child is fishing in the picture and is ...
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This is Thomas Cole's painting, "Catskill Scenery" . It has many great examples of Romanticism. Such as the rationalism and re...

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Title: Stranded Ship by Asher Durand. The image shown here is a picture of a boat that appears to be crashing over during rough seas. The me...

Hudson River

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This shows the Hudson river in between land and a mountain. This painting shows depth and gives me the ability to immerse myself within the...

The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden by Thomas Cole

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"The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden" was drew by Thomas Cole to demonstrate the beauties when America was in wilderness, settli...

The Stranded Ship by Asher Durand

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This picture shows the dramatic scene of the ship wreck right at the shore of the island. The setting shows the waves being aggressive to ...

Romantic Painting Stuart KirbyFrederick Church, "Aurora Borealis"

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This is a dramatic scene from a ship at sea looking at the norther lights. This shows the ship being calmly pushed through the passage way a...

Winter Landscape, Valley of the Catskills

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This picture is called Winter Landscape, Valley of the Catskills and is painted by Charles Herbert Moore. The romantic aspect of this painti...

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