View of Fort Ticonderoga from Mount Defiance. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Hudson River school on exhibit at Fort Ticonderoga

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View of Fort Ticonderoga from Mount Defiance. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

View of Fort Ticonderoga from Mount Defiance. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

TICONDEROGA, N.Y. (AP) – Fort Ticonderoga is opening its doors this week with some of the historic site’s most important artwork going on display in a single exhibit for the first time.

The private not-for-profit tourist attraction in the eastern Adirondacks opens Friday. The highlighted exhibit for the season is “The Art of War: Ticonderoga as Experienced through the eyes of America’s Great Artists.” Fifty of the museum’s most treasured paintings and other artwork will be on display in the fort’s Deborah Clarke Mars Education Center exhibition gallery.

The exhibit features a painting by Thomas Cole, considered the founder of the Hudson River School of American art.

Cole and other prominent 19th-century artists traveled to Ticonderoga to find inspiration in the fort’s ruins and the Adirondack landscape.

The fort, rebuilt in the early 20th century, is open through Oct. 20.

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View of Fort Ticonderoga from Mount Defiance. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

View of Fort Ticonderoga from Mount Defiance. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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