The Poetry of Nature: A Golden Age of American Landscape Painting

March 19 - June 12, 2016 - In this exhibition more than 25 celebrated American artists will be represented. These artists were inspired to explore the landscape by the writers of their time whose stories, essays and poems extolled the pristine, primeval quality and symbolic virtue of America’s natural beauty. Hudson River artists’ powerful interpretations of American scenery are illuminated in the exhibition’s arrangement highlighting the regions they frequently painted—along the Hudson River, through the Catskill Mountains and other regions of New York, and beyond to New England and the mid-Atlantic states. The boundless vistas, stately forests, magnificent mountains, gleaming rivers and lakes, and luminous skies the Hudson River School artists created in their paintings shaped national and cultural identity not only for their own time, but also formed an enduring legacy for future generations.