I went up and down along the Hudson River looking for the Hudson River School, and encountered many schools, but none with famous artists drawing pastoral landscapes. Then I remembered the spirit of American Landscape painting, of going out in the woods and painting the first thing you see. So I went home, closed my door, then walked back out, and the first guy I saw was Thomas Cole. He was just finishing up on this:
We talked for a little while about Walt Whitman and had a good time recalling some of his lines, but he said he had to go back to the schoolhouse with Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederic Edwin Church.
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