Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 sometimes from fire and other

sometimes from fire and other accidental causes

mezzotints

” from gentle roadside cascades

drawn from Olana's permanent collection

perspective

Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 sometimes from fire and otherThe 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