The Bowry Boys Episode 388.

The Hudson River School.

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Hi there, welcome to the Bowry Boys.

This is Greg Young.

And this is Tom Myers with the third and final part

of our road trip to the Hudson Valley.

Now, we started on the old quote-un-locke-dack trail

for part one, then headed up to Hyde Park

to discuss the Roosevelt in part two.

So we've gone from engineering marvels

to presidential libraries.

And now, on today's show, we're going to get artsy.

With the story of one of America's first major artistic movements,

known as the Hudson River School.

A specific style of landscape paintings

that began to appear in the 1820s on canvases produced

by the painter Thomas Cole.

Now, Cole, and then later, fellow Hudson River school painters,

would paint gorgeous views of natural settings

found just north of the city along the Hudson River Valley.

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