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Article: American landscape painting.(Current and coming)(Entitled Hudson River School Trilogy: A Focused Collection; Drawings from Dia; and Selections from the Permanent Collection)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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Among the most American expressions of all the various movements in American art, works by Hudson River school landscape painters truly stand apart. While it was a landscape style practiced by many, each artist had his own interpretation of the majestic and unspoiled landscape, so that these works are rarely hackneyed or formulaic. An exhibition on view at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, until October 21, presents works by fourteen Hudson River school artists drawn from three distinguished collections. Entitled Hudson River School Trilogy: A Focused Collection; Drawings from Dia; and Selections from the Permanent Collection, ...