Thomas Cole, the Catskill painter who started the Hudson River School
Thomas Cole’s paintings of the Catskills in the 1820s launched the first American art movement. His home in Catskill is now a historic site.
art history
Frederic Church and Olana, the house he designed like a painting
Frederic Church, Thomas Cole’s only student, built Olana above the Hudson in the 1870s. The house and grounds are now a state historic site.