Art Flashcards
Samuel F. B. Morse
1791-1872
Preceded but informed the Hudson River School
American painter heavily influenced by European art, inventor of the single wire telegraph system based on the European telegraph and co-developer of Morse code.
Winslow Homer
1836-1910
The greatest proponent of the Hudson River School
American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general.
Thomas Cole
1801-1848
Father of the Hudson River School
English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement
Friend of William Cullen Bryant
John Kensett
1816-1872
Hudson River School
Captured American light as “infinitely variable by the abruptly changing seasons”
Frederic Edwin Church
1826-1900
Hudson River School
Applied the style to massive landscapes around the world.
Frederic Edwin Church
1826-1900
Hudson River School
Applied the style to massive landscapes around the world.
George Inness
1825-1894
Post Hudson River School heavily influenced by theologian Emanuel Swedenborg and European landscape artists.
Thomas Eakins
1844-1916
Perhaps my favorite American painter by temperament
A contemporary of Winslow Homer, he remained fiercely individualist in his own style and resisted the popular trend of the Europeanized style of the Younger Men.
