Walks with Artists: The Hudson Valley and Beyond

Walks with Artists presents 40 paintings and prints from the Museum’s permanent collection, inviting viewers on a journey to sites in the Hudson Valley and Connecticut countryside made famous by 19th and 20th-century Hudson River School artists.

For centuries, the Hudson Valley has attracted intrepid artists to explore and depict its natural splendor. These views have then been collected, displayed, and impacted the way we envision nature. Walks with Artists: The Hudson Valley and Beyond examines the key role played by artists in bringing views of nature indoors—in a domestic or gallery setting—while inspiring our own outdoor itineraries. Forty paintings and prints from the Museum’s permanent collection from the 19th century to today, more than half recent acquisitions on view for the first time, underscore the centrality of landscape in our thought, then as now. 

Featured artists include Thomas Cole, George Inness, Fanny Palmer, George Gardner Symons, Ralph Fasanella, Richard Haas, Richard Mayhew, Alison Moritsugu, Ellen Kozak, and Jack Stuppin. The exhibition is organized around the elements that artists use to compose landscape paintings, from trees to sky.