[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15662]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  RECOGNIZING THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL

 Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. President, for half a century after its 
formation in the 1820s, the Hudson River School was the dominant 
movement in American art. Its 10 celebrated painters were inspired by 
the scenery of the Catskills Mountains and the Hudson Valley, with its 
panoramic vistas and natural landscapes. These artists helped create a 
conservation and environmental movement whose legacy lives on today. 
The Hudson River School paintings helped inspire the development of the 
National Park Service.

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