It basically traces the beginning of America’s environmental movement began with the effort to preserve and protect the Hudson River. But the origins of environmentalism began much, much earlier, in the early 1800s, the artist Thomas Cole, and what came to be known as the Hudson River School art movement. Hudson River School art on display include Robert Havell Jr.’s View of Hudson River from near Sing Sing, New York (ca. 1850) and George Henry Boughton’s Hudson River Valley from Fort Putnam, West Point (1855), both depicting tourists enjoying the landscape. “The Hudson River School painters believed art to be an agent of moral and spiritual transformation.

Source: Huffington Post March 25, 2019 15:00 UTC