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'''The Hudson River School''' was not an institution but rather an informal group of like-minded painters. Its name was coined to identify a group of New York City-based landscape painters. [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/hurs/hd_hurs.htm] [[Thomas Cole]] (1801-1848) is acknowledged as the founder of this movement. The movement was fueled by the poetry of [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] (1803-1882) and by the conviction that [[God]] had given the American people an abundance of natural resources as a source of wealth and prosperity. Cole's close friend, [[Asher Brown Durand|Asher Durand]] was also a prominent figure in the School. Durand believed that nature was an ineffable manifestation of God. Thomas Doughty, member of the School, was the first American artist to work exclusively as a landscapist. Other painters of the movement are Cole's prize pupil [[Frederic Edwin Church]], [[Thomas Moran]], [[Albert Bierstadt]], John Frederick Kensett, and Sanford Robinson Gifford.

'''The Hudson River School''' was not an institution but rather an informal group of like-minded painters. Its name was coined to identify a group of New York City-based landscape painters. [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/hurs/hd_hurs.htm] [[Thomas Cole]] (1801-1848) is acknowledged as the founder of this movement. The movement was fueled by the poetry of [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] (1803-1882) and by the conviction that [[God]] had given the American people an abundance of natural resources as a source of wealth and prosperity. Cole's close friend, [[Asher Brown Durand|Asher Durand]] was also a prominent figure in the School. Durand believed that nature was an ineffable manifestation of God. Thomas Doughty, member of the School, was the first American artist to work exclusively as a landscapist. Other painters of the movement are Cole's prize pupil [[Frederic Edwin Church]], [[Thomas Moran]], [[Albert Bierstadt]], John Frederick Kensett, William Hart and Sanford Robinson Gifford.

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