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Article: OVERLOOKED HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL GIVEN MET EXHIBITION.(Show)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- October 11, 1987
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Byline: Frederick M. Winship United Press International
The Hudson River School of 19th century landscape artists, the first American painters to gain recognition in Europe, are being celebrated with a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum.
The exhibition, sponsored by the Chrysler Corp. Fund, runs through Jan. 3.
The last major exhibition of Hudson River School art was mounted by the Art Institute of Chicago in 1945 at a time when public interest in such artists as Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, John F. Kensett, Jasper Cropsey, Martin Johnson Heade, Worthington Whittredge, Frederic E. Church, Sanford R. Gifford, George Inness, and Albert ...