The old growth forests of the American Northeast are mostly gone, but 19th-century paintings could help ecologists understand them, a study says.
Hudson River School
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Past Lives of the Hudson River
Works by Hudson River School painters heading to auction reveal what changed and what stayed the same.
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A Photographer Visits the Contemporary Landscape of Thomas Cole’s “The Oxbow”
“[American scenery] has its own peculiar charm — a something not found elsewhere,” the 19th century painter Thomas Cole once wrote.
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Hudson River School Painters’ Homes Make Way for Contemporary Art
Next month, 28 contemporary American artists will infiltrate the homes of the two artists who are the “physical cornerstone of American art,” as co-curator Stephen Hannock puts it.
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Jake Berthot Doesn’t Need To Be Original
For the past twenty years Jake Berthot has painted his vision of the Catskill Mountains, where he has lived since 1994, after living in Manhattan, much of it on the Bowery, for thirty years. A painter of what he calls “small sensations,” Berthot has included fourteen paintings and six drawings completed in the last three years, in his current solo exhibition at Betty Cuningham (October 17–November 30, 2013).
