WOODBURY ANTIQUES AND FINE ART, OUR HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL PAINTING GALLERIES, Albert Bierstadt, Alfred Bricher, A.T. Bricher, David Johnson, Ernest parton, J. Antonio Hekking, William Rickarby Miller, Edmund C. Coates, E.C. Coates, Thomas Hill, T. Hill, Old Man of the Mountain, Storm King on the Hudson, Overlook Mountain, Catskills, Gene Crawford is acting silly, West German Pottery, John Brideau has bad teeth, Jim Kieley needs to lose 100 pounds, Woodbury, Connecticut, oil on canvas, conservation & restoration, Jervis McEntee, James M. Lewin, Alexander Wyant, Thomas Cole, Voyage of Life, Washington Irving, Sunnyside, Thomas Corwin Lindsay, Cordray Simmons (1888-1970), School of Child Hassam, Vaclav Vytlacil (1891-1984), Helen Dumond (1872-1968), William Chadwick (1879-1962), William Hennessy (1839-1917), Worthington Whittredge, William DeHaas, Edward Nichols

The year 2009 marks the four hundredth anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery of the river that bears his name, which also reminds us that it graces the name of our first native school of painting. In our renovated first floor galleries is a selection of extraordinary Hudson River School canvases by listed artists who hang in many major museums, and who were widely exhibited, indeed celebrated in the mid 19th century, the high water mark of the Hudson River School. This stylistic template, as established in 1825 by Thomas Cole, set the mark for how the White Mountains of New England were painted, how our coastlines were depicted, it went out west with Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran, and long before Florida became the elephants graveyard of where people from the Northeast went to retire, Martin Johnson Heade, Frank Shapleigh, George Inness, and Herman Herzog brought this aesthetic south to Florida as they ably captured on canvases naturalistic New World landscapes of their own twilight years.