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<br /> OLANA, FREDERIC CHURCHES
<br /> „ Each new gene B
<br /> ration must E VILLA; THE TOWER
<br /> BEHHINDIND HIM WAS THE PAINTER'S
<br /> decide for itself how to inter ret STUDIO , OPPOSITE, THE HUDSON
<br /> RIVERFRONT PARK AT ATHENS
<br /> this landscape , " says S eve
<br /> Rosenberg , director of the Scenic story sawmill , but try to block out today's plant-a 400-foot
<br /> Hudson Land Trust. smokestack, spewing a mile-long plume of steam , grinding out
<br /> noise day and night, "
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<br /> composite , fictionalized views ; none of its artists pretended CROSS THE HUDSON from Cole's modest Cedar
<br /> to be documenting the land . Yet the school did begin to Grove rises the mansion built by his most illustrious
<br /> reflect development in the valley. By 1850 , cows wander pupil, Frederic Church. Cole may have founded the
<br /> into wild scenery. River vistas show an occasional mill or Hudson River School, but Church took the movement to the bank
<br /> bridge , however picturesque . Stumps appear on the moun- at the height of its popularity. One of the most financially suc-
<br /> tain peaks . Cole , a few years before his death , included his cessful 19th-century artists, he traveled widely beyond the riverval-
<br /> own " common detail" : a locomotive steaming through River ley to Mexico, South America , and the Arctic in search of larger,
<br /> in the Catskills ( 1843 ) . grander views . His most famous painting, Heart of the Andes ,
<br /> Though it's possible , as some Hudson River School scholars received a stunning commission of $ 10 ,000 . It toured London,
<br /> argue , that these details were deliberate social commentary, a New York, and then smaller US. cities like a circus act. Church prow,
<br /> + kind of proto -environmentalism responding to the destruction moted the painting tirelessly. More than 12,000 people paid 25 cents
<br /> of nature , it is far more likely that the artists simply changed, to gape at the 10-foot-long canvas draped in curtains and buntinga
<br /> admitting the possibility that architecture could lend something Church used the proceeds from Heart of the Andes to build
<br /> positive to a landscape . If the Hudson River School artists Olana , an exotic Persian villa with 360-degree views of the river
<br /> learned to incorporate elements of industry into their work, can valley. Now managed by New York's parks department, the
<br /> we fit them into our lives as well? house museum and studio is the second most visited historic site
<br /> "I've argued endlessly with some developers who point out in the valley (the Vanderbilt mansion in Hyde Park is number
<br /> that the Hudson River School painters lived with industry," Kelly one) , receiving 300 , 000 visitors annually.
<br /> says. "The artists even included it in their work, they say. But now Church came to Olana to enjoy and paint the scenery, but
<br /> It
<br /> it's a question of scale . Back then you could co-exist with a two- he also hoped to create a living-landscape painting out of the
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