Questroyal Fine Art’s Annual Hudson River School Show

The Hudson River School continues to be celebrated as the first true movement in American art. Once disparagingly named by British critics to refer to a group of New York landscape painters, the movement flourished in the late nineteenth century, representing a growing appreciation for depictions of the American wilderness. Encouraged by the transcendentalist ideology of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, the Hudson River School painters applied the idea of the sublime to American landscape painting. Their success is evident in the enduring love for Hudson River School paintings among today’s collectors, who continue to appreciate and acquire these works. 

The continuing legacy of these masters is evident in the ongoing success of Questroyal Fine Art’s annual Hudson River School show, one of the most anticipated exhibitions among American collectors. No Boundaries: Important Hudson River School Paintings, which opened at Questroyal Fine Art on March 11, is a rare opportunity to see some of the finest examples of the Hudson River School in one exhibition. Comprised of over ninety paintings, the exhibition brings together some of the best works of painters such as Albert Bierstadt, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Asher B. Durand, John Frederick Kensett, Sanford Robinson Gifford, and Thomas Moran, among others. In the words of gallery owner Louis M. Salerno, “To all those who cherish the meditative solace found hiking in the woods, the tranquility of a mountain lake, and the enchanting stillness of the night, their universal language will forever be understood.” 

Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847–1919)
Fall Landscape, Catskills, with Hikers
oil on canvas
18 ½ x 32 ¾ inches
signed lower left

Available at Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York

Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900)
Autumn Landscape, 1885
Oil on canvas
67⁄8 x 13 5/16 inches
Signed and dated lower right: J. F. Cropsey / 1885.
Available at Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York 

Asher B. Durand (1796–1886)
Dutchess County, New York
Oil on canvas
14 1/16 x 21 5/16 inches
Initialed lower right: ABD

Available at Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York 

  

 Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880)
Echo Lake, New Hampshire
Oil on canvas
12 x 10 inches
Signed lower right: S. R. Gifford
Available at Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York 

Homer Dodge Martin (1836–1897)
In the Catskills
Oil on canvas
14 1/8 x 24 1/8 inches
Signed lower right: H. D. Martin

Available at Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York 

Thomas Moran (1837–1926)
Sunset, Amagansett, 1905
Oil on canvas
301⁄2 x 401⁄2 inches
Monogrammed and dated lower right: TMoran 1905
Available at Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York 

William Trost Richards (1833–1905)
Bouquet Valley in the Adirondacks, 1863
Oil on canvas
25⅛ x 36⅛ inches
Signed and dated lower right: Wm. T. Richards / 1863. Phila

Available at Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York  

 

 

Charles Volkmar (1841–1914)
On the Hudson, 1867
Oil on canvas
9 ½ x 17 7/16 inches
Signed and dated lower right: C. Volkmar / 1867.; on verso: On the Hudson / C. Volkmar

Available at Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York