Landscapes, or views of nature, play a significant role in
American art. The earliest American landscape paintings were
topographic illustrations of farms, cities, and landmarks
that were generally painted for local residents or for
Europeans interested in the New World. In the colonial era,
landscape views were found primarily in the backgrounds of
portraits, usually to provide additional information about
the sitter.
Landscape painting came to dominate American art in the
1820s, when artists began to equate the country's unspoiled
wilderness with the new nation's seemingly limitless
potential. Foremost among those increasingly interested in
the expressive power of landscape was the young artist
Thomas Cole. Cole is regarded as the founder of the Hudson
River school, a loosely knit group of American artists who
actively painted landscapes between 1825 and 1875. Giving
stylistic direction to a distinctly American understanding
of nature, Hudson River school artists invested the land
with a sense of national identity, the promise of
prosperity, and the presence of God.
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