Before you call homeland security…

Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow),

1836

Edmund Coates, The Connecticut River from Mount Holyoke, 1855

David John Gue, View from Mount Holyoke, 1903

Why did the Hudson River School of artist make so many Landscape paintings?

Why did they paint so many views of the Connecticut River from the top of Mt. Holyoke (Skinner Mountain)?

It was part of their visual culture.

Randall Deihl, View of the Valley, 1985

James Winn

The Connecticut River Near

Northampton, 1987

Cathy Osman, Oxbow Revisited, 1993

Martha Armstrong, Oxbow from the Summit House, 1993

Mark Meunier, Valley View, 1995

David Moriarty, New World: Red, 1996

Robert Masla, View from the

Summit- Homage to Thomas Cole, 1996

How are these two pieces similar and

how are they different?

How’d they do that?

Thomas Cole

Robert Scott Duncanson