Hudson River School: Bibliography & Resources
Books, documentaries, and scholarly resources
Books
1980
Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875
An influential study of how American painters and writers understood nature, religion and national identity, central to the modern understanding of the Hudson River School and luminism.
1853
The Life and Works of Thomas Cole
The first biography of Cole, by his friend and pastor, drawing extensively on the painter's letters and journals; first published in 1853 as The Course of Empire, Voyage of Life, and Other Pictures of Thomas Cole, and reissued under this title in 1964.