The Hudson River School (1825-1875) was the theme of the June lecture
jointly sponsored by the Columbia County Historical Society and Historic Hudson (HistoricHudson.org)
jointly sponsored by the Columbia County Historical Society and Historic Hudson (HistoricHudson.org)
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'The Hudson River School'
(1825-1875) Sunday, June 25, 2017 4:30 -6:30 pm 
TICKETS:
Advance Tickets $15 At the Door: $15 Members (CCHS or HH) $ 20 Non-Members |
"The Hudson River School (1825-1875)" A Slide Show And Conversation by Peter Jung ABOUT THE ARTISTS: The mid-19th century landscape painters of the Hudson River Valley depicted the new American landscape in bucolic, pastoral and sublime terms, where humans and nature were united in peaceful co-existence. These realist paintings were quite detailed, and often combined many images from diverse natural scenes and vistas observed along the Hudson River as well as the extended geography including the Catskills and Adirondacks. Hudson River School painters such as Thomas Cole, Sanford Robinson Gifford and Frederick Church, and others, captured some of the last moments of the virgin landscape inhabited by the Native Americans before European immigrants transformed borders of true wilderness into farms and settlements. These artists believed that God was manifest in the form of the American landscape, and their reverence for the vistas before them are recorded in the paintings known as Hudson River School paintings. While initially considered raw by comparison to the plein-air paintings of the Forêt Barbizon in France, today Hudson River School paintings are prized far beyond the Hudson Valley. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: For the past 25 years Peter Jung has owned a gallery at 512 Warren St. in Hudson, NY featuring traditional American paintings. During that time he has handled many examples of the Hudson River school of art, (1825-1875), a style of painting that is an important part of our national heritage. Jung has served on the Board of Directors at the Olana Partnership, the Hudson Opera House, the Hudson Planning Commission, and the Friends of Hudson. In recent years he has restored the family gravesite of the great artist Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880), who is at rest in the Hudson City Cemetery. The slide show will feature 60 images, and will be followed by a question-and-answer conversation. LOCATION: Stair Galleries, 549 Warren St, Hudson, NY 12534 Join us for a glass of wine or other beverage at 4:30 before the lecture! Lecture begins at 5:00. |
"...All of the Hudson River School paintings are not just “pretty pictures”, Jung calls them “part of the fabric of American history."
