Hudson River School Paintings, Wadsworth Atheneum: A Book of Postcards

Rear cover notes: "The Hudson River School of painters left a notable legacy to American art, embodying the reverence for nature and the national idealism that prevailed at the middle of the nineteenth century. In lush, richly colored depictions of quiet river valleys, dramatic coastal vistas, and vast reaches of mountain and forest, artists such as Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederic Edwin Church Captured the wonder and unspoiled beauty of nature in early America. This book of postcards presents thirty magnificent works by painters of the Hudson River School, all from the collection of the Wadsworth Academy." Each postcard can be detached from the binding and mailed individually.