Description
The chart is an interactive lineage map. Hudson River School sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.
For Hudson River School (c. 1825 – 1870s), it traces one movement that shaped it, a well-established link: Romanticism; it runs alongside one parallel movement, a well-established link: the American Barbizon school; it fans out to one movement it went on to influence, a well-established link: Tonalism.
The Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century American art movement made by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. Early on, the paintings typically depicted the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, including the Catskill, Adirondack, and White Mountains.
Works by second-generation artists expanded to include other locales in New England, the Maritimes, the Western United States, and South America. Read more ↗
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