Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 and vintage postcards

and vintage postcards

and preservation

in a gorge

and science provide a fascinating background of the rivers many lives while the works of contemporary artists

Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 and vintage postcardsThe Hudson River Valley was the first iconic American landscape. Beginning as early as the 1820s, artists and writers found new ways of thinking about the human relationship with the natural world along the Hudson. Here, amid the most dramatic river and mountain scenery in the eastern United States, Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper created a distinctly American literature, grounded in folklore and history, that contributed to the emergence