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9:00 AM PT - Feb 19th, 2012
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Oil on canvas painting possibly Catskill Mountains area depicting Falls, Orig Frame, Hudson River School. Unsigned, and framed in a very nice gilded gold frame.
Provenance: Miki & James Mangan III. Work Size: L. 10.25" x H. 24" Frame Size: L. 4.5" x H. 28.75" x D. 2" Weight: 5lbs 8oz Condition: Excellent, with excellent frame The Hudson River School was a mid-nineteenth century American art movement that was coined around a loosely connected group of landscape painters, whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism. The representative paintings depict the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, as well as the Catskill Mountains, Adirondack Mountains, and White Mountains of New Hampshire. The artistic philosophy has been described as "being rooted in religious environmentalism." Although the members of the group varied in their religious convictions and maybe never met one another, overall they borrowed heavily from the social idealism of the transcendentalists. Hudson River School artists believed that nature in the form of the American landscape was an "ineffable manifestation of God." In his "Essay on American Scenery" for the American Monthly Magazine, Thomas Cole wrote, "American Scenery is a subject that to every American ought to be of surpassing interest; for, whether he beholds the Hudson mingling waters with the Atlantic, explores the central wilds of this vast continent, or stands on the margin of the distant Oregon, he is still in the midst of American scenery—it is his own land; its beauty, its magnificence, its sublimity—all are his; and how undeserving of such a birthright, if he can turn towards it an unobserving eye, an unaffected heart!". Condition reportExcellent, with excellent frame
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