HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL 
A Studio Reception, Paris, 1841 by Thomas Pritchard Rossiter (1818-1871,) oil on canvas. Gift of Miss Ellen W. Boyd, cousin of artist, 1916.4.1 A Studio Reception, Paris, 1841 by Thomas Pritchard Rossiter  depicts a gathering of American expatriates including Hudson River School artists Asher B. Durand, John Casilear and John Frederick Kensett.

America's first native landscape painting, known today as the Hudson River School emerged during the middle decades of the 19th century.

Located in the heart of the Hudson Valley, the Albany Institute of History & Art has rich holdings of work by Hudson River School artists. The collections includes over 60 paintings and oil sketches by first and second generation Hudson River School artists and over 100 sketches, sketchbooks, letters, photographs and other related materials.


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Morning, Looking East Over the Hudson Valley from the Catskill Mountains

 by Frederic Church


Lake Winnepesaukee

  by Thomas Cole


Ruined Tower

by Thomas Cole


Dawn of Morning, Lake George

by Jasper Francis Cropsey


An Old Man's Reminiscences

by Asher D. Durand


Distant View of Albany

by William M. Hart


The Adirondacks

by James McDonald Hart


Storm King on the Hudson

by Homer Dodge Martin