The Hudson River and Its Painters

208 pp. "The development of the first native American school of artists is the subject of The Hudson River And Its Painters. The book presents more than one hundred stunning reproductions, 70 of them is full color, of works by Victor Gifford Audubon, Albert Bierstadt, George Innes, Asher Brown Durand, Thomas Cole, Frederick Edwin Church, Winslow Homer, Sanford Robinson Gifford, John Frederick Kensett, and others. The reproductions are arranged geographically as stages on a journey from teh sea to the Hudson's source at Lake Tear of the Clouds in the Adirondack Mountains. The informative text, written by John K. Howat, Chairman of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, is a monograph exploring the origins and history of the Hudson River School."