Through most of the 19th century America's vast wilderness was captured by artists in detailed landscape paintings. Landscape paintings became America's first great art movement, commonly referred to today as the Hudson River School. They helped raise American's admiration and awareness of the unsullied frontier. Unlike Europe, which had already been stripped of some of its natural terrain, America was seen as both bountiful and untouched. The paintings  were popular throughout the 19th century, and dominated America's visual experience from the1830's into the last decades of the 19th century. 

The Hudson River School artists were stylistically and philosophically joined in their appreciation and devotion to presenting scenes which showed nature in what today would be called  cinematic richness . Artists were unique in their style and  in identifying  unique geographic regions. Splendidly, they visually opened  unique areas, mountain ranges, valleys, waterways, lakes, views of forests, and/or waterfalls to a population eager to see and share Americas frontier. There were approximately 70 core artists and over150 additional artists who captivated the publics imagination of an abundant land. 

In the 1970's American fine art collectors reignited the Hudson River School art market with popular auction sales, museums and dealer exhibits. The landscapes have been a popular collectible and recognized market segment since then.
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