Later Hudson River School: Painter as Prophet
Named after the Hudson River area that flowed through the Catskills (Kaaterskill) area.
A ìschoolî of landscape artists who found the divine reflected in the natural world.
First group in American art to appreciate the American landscape for its own merits.
Each artist eventually created more fantastical allegorical landscape paintings, based on the natural world by romanticized to fit Christian teachings and sentiment.
The painter becomes a prophet of Biblical times to come, by reflecting the natural world which is a reflection of God.
American landscape as ideal or holy place.
Examples in Pohl: Cropsey (p.142) & Duncanson (p.143)