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Wilderness Art of the 1800sIn the 1800s, several key American landscape artists turned away from the European fashion of representing the outdoors as neatly trimmed gardens and quaint countryside. Rather, they were drawn to the American wilderness and painted it the way it was: raw, wild and unruly. Thomas Cole, who inspired the Hudson River School of painting, was one of the earliest. Following Cole were two other important landscape artists of the 1800s including Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran. The work of these artists influenced literature and literature influenced their art. Thus art, as well as literature, became another means by which Americans were made aware of the country's magnificent wilderness. (Copyright Note: All illustrative works are in the public domain) Thomas Cole (1801- 1848) (Transcendental Generation)  Sunny Morning on the Hudson River Landscape with Tree Trunks The Oxbow Schroon Mountain . The Course of the Empire Series: Savage State Pastoral State Consummation of the Empire Thomas Cole Destruction Desolation Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902) (Gilded Generation) Wind River Country Yosemite Lower Yellowstone Falls Buffalo Trail Sierra Nevada Scenes of Hetch Hetchy  Thomas Moran (1837 - 1926) (Gilded Generation) Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone The Chasm of the Colorado Mount of the Holy Cross Ruby Range Shoshone Falls . Thomas Moran _________________________ Wilderness Photography of the 1800s William Henry Jackson is the best known of the outdoor photographers of the 1800s. He was with Thomas Moran on Hayden's Yellowstone Expedition. While Moran made sketches and paintings of Yellowstone, Jackson took the first photographs. He also was the first to photograph Teton Range, the Colorado Rockies and other scenic areas of the west. William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) (Just barely in the Progressive Generation)  Mammoth Hot Springs (Yellowstone) Old Faithful (Yellowstone) Mount Moran (Tetons) Mount of the Holy Cross (Colorado) William Henry Jackson . |
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Cole: Sunny Morning on
the Hudson River
Albert Bierstadt