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See Art History Come to Life on the Hudson
River School Art Trail
The Hudson River School Art Trail takes you to the sites that inspired
America’s first great landscape painters, enabling you to walk in the
footsteps of Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Asher B. Durand, Jasper
Cropsey, Sanford Gifford and other pioneering American artists, and to
see the landscapes that launched the Hudson River School of art.
On this website you will see some of the magnificent paintings these
artists created, compared with photographs of the same views today. You
can also download a map and directions to guide you to the actual
views, which are all within 15 miles of the 19th-century homes of
Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, two of the Hudson Valley's most
significant historic sites, which together form the anchor of the
Trail.
Enjoy your journey.
The Hudson River School Art Trail is a project of
presented in partnership with Olana New York State Historic Site and
The Olana Partnership, and with the National Park Service Rivers &
Trails program, with assistance from the Greene County
Tourism Promotion Department. The Trail project is funded in part
by a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation with special
thanks to Congressman John Sweeney for his support, the Arts &
Business Council of New York, and the New York State Council on the
Arts.
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This page: Thomas Cole, View on the Catskill - Early
Autumn, 1838. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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Copyright ©2007 The Thomas
Cole National Historic Site.
Website by Blass Communications and Apogee
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