In the 1820's a group of American Artists inspired by the writings of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson began painting the New York's Hudson River Valley landscapes and the surrounding Catskill mountain area with skillful attention to detail, handling of light and atmospheric effects, and a profusion of leaves and branches

Artists of note included
Albert BIERSTADT - 1830-1902+
Alfred Thompson Bricher 1837-1908
George Loring Brown 1814-1889
John CASILEAR - 1811-1893
Thomas Chambers 1808-1866
Frederic CHURCH  - 1826-1900*
Edmund Coatges 1816-1871*
Thomas COLE - 1891-1848+*
Samuel Colman 1832-1920
Jasper CROPSEY - 1823-1900*
Robert Duncanson - c1817/1822 - 1872
Thomas Doughty - 1793-1856*
Asher Brown Durand - 1796-1886*
Sanford Gifford 1823-1880*
Regis Francois Gignoux 1816-1882*
de Grailly 1804-1889*
William Hart 1823-1894*
James McDougal Hart 1828-1901*
Martin Johnson Heade - 1819-1904
Herman Herzog 1831-1932
Thomas Hill 1829-1908\*
David Huntington 1816-1906*
George Inness 1825-1894*
David Johnson - 1827-1908
John Frederick Kensett 1816-1872*
Charles Knapp 1823-1900*
Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1865
Louis Mignot 1831-1870*
Thomas Moran 1837-1926
Thomas P Rossiter 1818-1871
Francis Silva 1835-1886*
William Sonntag 1822-1900*
Paul Webber 1823-1916*
Thomas Worthing Whittredge 1820-1910
Robert Weir 1803-1889*

Key Collections include: