The artist and early environmentalist Thomas Cole (1801–1848) founded the influential 19th-century art movement known as the Hudson River School of American landscape painting and advocated for the preservation of the natural landscape. The Hudson River School Art Trail connects you with the places in nature that Cole and the Hudson River School artists painted.
Today, you can visit these magnificent views thanks to extensive preservation efforts.
Choose Your Destination
Discover the places in nature that inspired iconic 19th-century landscape paintings that now hang in major museums around the world.
The Hudson River School
The Hudson River School was a movement of over 100 artists working between 1825 and 1875. Their paintings of the American landscape gave rise to the desire to preserve it. In this way, their work began to equate the landscape of the United States with its national identity.
Suggested Itineraries
Whether you have an afternoon or a week, there’s an itinerary for you.
The making of the
Hudson River
Art School Trail
