Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 mezzotints

mezzotints

Seven owners of brickyards lived on the street

drawn from Olana's permanent collection

” from gentle roadside cascades

Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 mezzotintsThe Hudson River Valley was the first iconic American landscape. Beginning as early as the 1820s, artists and writers found new ways of thinking about the human relationship with the natural world along the Hudson. Here, amid the most dramatic river and mountain scenery in the eastern United States, Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper created a distinctly American literature, grounded in folklore and history, that contributed to the emergence