Glosssary: Hudson River School
A group of painters who created glorious paintings of the wild American landscape. Thomas Cole, the leading artist in the group, painting many works of New York's Hudson River Valley. Others, including Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Edwin Church, traveled to the wildernesses of North and South America and painted vast canvasses which enraptured the American public. Some artists in this group explored ways to use light effects to capture dramatic skies, mists and sunsets, forming a subgroup of artists called Luminists.

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