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Asher Brown Durand is born.
Asher Brown Durand is born, he becoems the head of the Hudson School following Thomas Cole`s death. -
Birth of Romanticism
Romanticism formed in the the 1790s to 1800s as a counter movement to the Enlightenment. Romanticism had a significant impact on art. -
Thomas Cole is born.
Thomas Cole was an American painter who is considered the founder of the Hudson River School. -
Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson buys the Lousiana Purchase, leading to the development of the american west. The Purchase adds 828,000 square miles to the U.S. effectivley doubling its` size. -
The War of 1812 begins
After years of heated tensions, Britian and American go to war again. This will have a positive impact on westward expansion. -
The War of 1812 ends
The War of 1812 ends. The war greatly weakened the Native American`s hold on the region and drastically boosted american pride and nationalism. -
Cole Arrives
Thomas Cole arrives in America in 1825, determined to become a landscape painter. -
Frederic Edwin Church is born.
Church was the only pupil of Thomas Cole. Church`s artistic style was more down-to-earth compared to Cole`s more mystical and romantic artworks. -
Transcendentalism emerges: 1830-1840.
Ralph Waldo Emerson leads the formation of the Transcendentalist philosophy. -
Jacksonian Democracy
Andrew Jackson begins the Jacksonian Democracy. The urge for westward expansion becomes a very powerful force. -
Hudson River School forms.
Thomas Cole began forming the Hudson River School with his art around 1835. -
Emerson publishes Nature.
Emerson`s essay, Nature, is considered a ground breaking work that sets the foundation for Transcendentalism. -
Thomas Moran is born
Thomas Moran is another influential Hudson River artist. -
Manifest Destiny gets its` name.
John L. O`Sullivan coins the term for Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny guides racist american views and westward expansion for the next 50 years. -
Thomas Cole dies.
After Thomas Cole dies Asher Brown Durand becomes the dean of the Hudson River School of art. -
Kindred Spirit`s is painted.
Asher Brown Durand paint`s Kindred Spirit`s. Kindred Spirits`s is a transcendentalist artwork that retells a meeting between Thomas Cole and his close friend Willian Cullen Bryant. Cole had died recently that year. -
Hudson River School reaches its` most mature form.
The Hudson River School of Art reaches maturity around 1850. Frederic Church and Albert Bierstadt extend the heroic landscape traditions after Thomas Cole`s death. -
Jacksonian Democracy ends.
Around the time the Jacksonian Democracy ends, Hudson River artists begin to incorporate the nations expansionist urges into their artwork. -
Frederic Church paints Home by the Lake
Home by the Lake is another romantic work that was influence by Manifest Destiny. -
Thomas Moran paints the Valley of the Catawissa in Autumn
Valley of the Catawissa is a romantic work that also embodies Manifest Destiny.
