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The Hudson River School: American Landscape Artists (American Art)

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The Hudson River School of Artists included some of the World's greatest artists and their work can be found in this excellently produced book. This book is well written, well organized and shows off the treasures of the Hudson River Artists.
It is perfect for your library, coffee table, and excellent as a gift to art students, history students, loved ones.
Outstanding quality went in to this book.

This is a large format book filled with paintings of several different famous landscape artists. Some paintings stretch to fill two pages and others are worked in at all different sizes. There is accompanying text to help you understand each artist and their role in this "Hudson Valley" artistic endeavor or community. Some of the paintings are reproduced very small and I would have liked to see them a bit larger, but overall this book is a great introduction to each of the artists and their work and an interesting overview of this school of artists. After seeing some of these paintings you'll definitely want to follow up on some of these artists and get a larger book on their works and life.

I often give this book as a momento to people leaving their Hudson Valley homes. It has lovely pictures and an interesting text describing the history and importance of the Hudson River School of painting. In comparison to the Minks book- they are very similar except in cost.