“It is important to recast 19th century American women landscape painters no longer as the exception… but rather as exceptional,” says Nancy Siegel, a co-curator of a new exhibiton at Cedar Grove: The Thomas Cole National Historic Site, in Catskill, New York.

Jennifer Krieger, managing partner of Hawthorne Fine Arts in Manhattan, told audiences at a lecture on Sunday of a "courageous, determined, hardworking and keenly observant group of women."

Artists such as Sarah Cole, Charlotte Coman, Eliza Greatorex, Elizabeth Jerome, Mary Blood Mellen, Evelina Mount, Harriet Cany Peale, Jane Stuart, Laura Woodward, and others, whose work is on par with their male counterparts of the Hudson River School, "captured the beauty, awe and majesty of the natural landscape”.