The second generation of Hudson River school…
1857 CE
Works by artists of this second generation are often described as examples of Luminism.
In addition to pursuing their art, many of the artists, including Kensett, Gifford and Church, are among the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Most of the finest works of the second generation are painted between 1855 and 1875.
During this time, artists such as Frederic Edwin Church and Albert Bierstadt are celebrities.
They are both influenced by the Düsseldorf school of painting, and Bierstadt had studied in that city for several years.
When Church exhibits paintings such as Niagara or The Icebergs, thousands of people pay twenty-five cents a head to view the solitary works.
The epic size of these landscapes, unexampled in earlier American painting, remind Americans of the vast, untamed, but magnificent wilderness areas in their country.
Such works are being painted during the period of settlement of the American West, preservation of national parks, and establishment of green city parks.
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Frederic Edwin Church: Niagara (1857) Oil on canvas ; 101.6 cm (40 ″) x 229.9 cm (90.5 ″) . National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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