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- Title
Scenes "most impressive and delightful": Nineteenth-century Artists in the Shawangunks.
- Authors
Flad, Harvey K.
- Abstract
The article discusses the artwork of the Hudson River School painters, focusing on the efforts of the artists to find scenic views for landscape paintings in the Shawangunk mountains. Other topics include the tourist industry in the Catskill and Shawangunk Mountains, information on artists who painted the area including Worthington Whittredge, Asher B. Durand, and Thomas Cole, and the development of Lake Mohonk and the Mohonk Mountain House as a getaway for painters by the Smiley Family.
- Subjects
SHAWANGUNK Mountains (N.Y.); NEW York (State); HUDSON River school of landscape painting (19th century); 19TH century American landscape painting; TOURISM; WHITTREDGE, Worthington, 1820-1910; DURAND, A. B. (Asher Brown), 1796-1886; COLE, Thomas, 1801-1848; LAKES
- Publication
Hudson River Valley Review, 2014, Vol 31, Issue 1, p95
- ISSN
1546-3486
- Publication type
Essay