Painting A Nation: Hudson River School Landscapes from the Higdon Collection was organized by the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina.

Presented in Memory of Anne and T.R. Tucker, Jr.

The Higdon collection includes superb examples of Hudson River School paintings, the first native school of painting in the United States. The majority of the works depict serene scenes of New York state and the northeast region, though several works, such as Albert Bierstadt’s Cathedral Rock, A View of Yosemite, ca. 1872, go farther afield. Together, these paintings celebrate the picturesque beauty of our nation and reflect the collective desire of the Hudson River painters to develop a uniquely American visual language, independent of European schools of painting.

Albert Bierstadt, Cathedral Rocks, A View of Yosimite, ca. 1872, Oil on paper, 19x14 inches, Image courtesy of the Gibbes Museum.

Exhibition Sponsors:

In Memory of Anne & T.R. Tucker Jr.
Dorothy & Charlie Jenkins, Jr.
 

Sarah D. McKay
Patsy & Bobby Stokes
Lee & Becky Jackson

David & Jean Bunch