The Last New World: Important Hudson River School Paintings

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The Last New World: Important Hudson River School Paintings

NEW YORK, New York
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February 21, 2018

John Frederick Kensett (1816–1872) Pro Patria (Sunset on the Coast), 1864 Oil on canvas 141/16 x 241/16 inches Monogrammed and dated lower right: JF.K. ’64 Available at Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York

For two decades, this annual event has been the most comprehensive exhibition and sale of important nineteenth-century American landscapes. Opening March 9 at Questroyal Fine Art and running through April 7, The Last New World: Important Hudson River School Paintings features over one hundred twenty-five paintings by the nation’s most revered artists whose works are included in virtually every major American museum. Paintings by leaders of the period will be on view, including examples by Albert Bierstadt, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Thomas Cole, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Asher B. Durand, Sanford Robinson Gifford, John Frederick Kensett, Jervis McEntee, William Trost Richards, Francis Augustus Silva, and Worthington Whittredge.

Gallery owner Louis Salerno, a proponent of American paintings as undervalued assets against the dizzying contemporary market, finds Hudson River School artwork in particular to have enduring importance for Americans. In Mr. Salerno’s words, “The sense of awe we experience as we view the sublime and the beautiful rouses a dormant patriotism. At a moment when we are experiencing a widening ideological divide, we need this genuine American art that encourages an affection for the homeland, a sentiment critical to the well-being of a union that Lincoln described as ‘the last best hope of earth.’”

Worthington Whittredge (1820–1910) The Hudson Valley from the Catskill Mountains, 1898 Oil on canvas 15 x 23 inches Signed lower right: WWhitredge; on stretcher bar: The Valley of the Hudson / from the Catskill Mountains / painted by W. Whittredge / 1898 Available at Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York

To request a copy of the exhibition catalogue, The Last New World: Important Hudson River School Paintings, call 212-744-3586 or visit our website at www.questroyalfineart.com/publications.

About Questroyal Fine Art

Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, is an established American art gallery specializing in quality American paintings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Questroyal’s extensive inventory of over five hundred artworks includes important Hudson River School, tonalist, impressionist, and modernist examples.

903 Park Avenue (at 79th Street), Third Floor, New York, NY 10075

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