FAH230H1 Study Guide - Catskill Mountain House, Catskill Creek, Hudson River School
Document Summary
The creek in the foreground issues from the clove, or gorge, dividing the range beyond, on a crest of which was located the catskill mountain house hotel, a resort that supplied some of the school"s (hudson. Cole moved from n. y city to catskill just the year before he painted this picture. From the museum of metropolitan art: this pastoral prospect of the catskill creek and the distant catskill mountains is the largest and most ambitious of several painted by. Cole, the father of the hudson river school. The creek in the foreground issues from the. clove, or gorge, dividing the range beyond, on a crest of which was located the catskill mountain. House hotel, a resort that supplied some of the school"s clients. Catskill just the year before he painted this picture, in the midst of completing the course of empire (new-york historical society), a five-part historical landscape series whose scope and ambition he never exceeded.
