Remember the Ladies: Women Artists of the Hudson River School
May 2-October 31, 2010
Contrary to popular understanding, landscape painting in the 19th century was not exclusively practiced by men. Our 2010 exhibition seeks to increase awareness of a previously little-celebrated but highly talented and accomplished group of women artists, and to examine the ways in which women artists were trained and exhibited their work alongside their male colleagues. The exhibition will bring these deserving artists to the public’s attention with an exhibition in the home of the founder of the art movement known as the Hudson River School. . Read more…
Guided Hikes on the Hudson River School Art Trail
On Saturdays throughout the summer and fall, guided hikes will depart from the Thomas Cole site at 9am, traveling through such picturesque locations as Kaaterskill Clove, the site of the famous Catskill Mountain House hotel that boasts a view of the entire Hudson Valley, and Sunset Rock, where many now-famous landscape paintings were inspired. The hikes are offered June through October to the views that appear in the landscape paintings of Cole and his contemporaries.. . Read more…
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