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Different Views in Hudson River School Painting

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Different Views In Hudson River School Painting by Judith Hansen O'Toole (Director and CEO of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania) is an expansive and beautifully presented anthology of the art and the artists who pioneered the first native style of American landscape painting. Providing readers with an illustrative compendium of examples supported by an informative and "reader friendly" text, Different Views In Hudson River School Painting delves deep into the study of many various artists in terms of their diverse styles and productivity. A perfect edition to personal, academic, and community library Art History collections, Different Views In Hudson River School Painting is very highly recommended and informative reading.

Sometimes when looking at these landscape paintings you feel you are looking out a window or are in the landscape itself. It's beautiful to see the natural, the wilderness, especially for me (like many others) who are surrounded by machines all day long. O'Toole does fine job explaining each painting and its symbols. For example, deers are symbolic of wilderness while cows are symbolic of man's encroachment into the wild. Another example, a scene of a boat with hay being guided by a tugboat toward dark clouds (the top picture on the cover) appears to be "a metaphor for man himself being guided through the challenges of nature's perils and his persistence in working to tame them..."

I would recommend it.

It is both beautiful and facinating, since it compares the styles specific to most of the artists of this era. It brings together the paintings that are meant to be reviewed together and makes them that much more amazing. It is a great book for lovers of the Hudson River School.

Very colorful book filled with paintings of 1800's America. I am a fan of Albert Bierstadt's paintings, but unfortunately there are none of his paintings shown. However, there are some great paintings by Frederick Church, Thomas Cole, Benjamin Champney, Samuel Colman, Jr., and many others that painted the Hudson River at that time.

This book is not about different Hudson School painters painting the same view but in their own styles. As in history and in my life, I go out painting with other painters and we paint the same view. Each painting is unique but you can see that they were painted it in the area on the same day. This book has nothing to do with that idea. A nice book, as reviewed by others, but not what I expected.