Research Catalog

Title

Hudson River school : masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art / introduction by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser ; catalogue by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser and Amy Ellis, with Maureen Miesmer.

Author

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, 1950-

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press in association with the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, c2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ellis, Amy
• Miesmer, Maureen
• Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University
• Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Description

ix, 169 : ill. (some col.), ports.; 32 cm.

Summary

"Hudson River School paintings are among America's most admired and well-loved artworks. Such artists as Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt, and Martin Johnson Heade left a powerful legacy to American art, embodying in their epic works the reverence for nature and the national idealism that prevailed during the middle of the nineteenth century. This book features fifty-seven major Hudson River School paintings from the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, recognized as the finest and most extensive in the world." "Amply illustrated, the book includes paintings by all of the major figures of the Hudson River School. Each work is beautifully reproduced in full color and is accompanied by a concise description of its significant and historical background. The book also includes artists' biographies and a brief introduction to American nineteenth-century landscape painting and the Wadsworth Atheneum's unique role in collecting Hudson River pictures."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Subject

• Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art > Exhibitions
• 1800-1899
• Hudson River school of landscape painting > Exhibitions
• Landscape painting, American > Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Art > Hartford > Exhibitions
• Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Oct. 8, 2003-Jan. 18, 2004, and five other locations through Jan. 8, 2006.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-164) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: "All nature here is new to art"- Painting the American landscape in the nineteenth century / Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser -- Catalogue / Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser and Amy Ellis, with Maureen Miesmer -- Notes to the catalogue -- Selected bibliography.

ISBN

• 0300101163 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0918333202 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003009650

OCLC

• 52153906
• SCSB-10447081

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library