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“He really created a Hudson River school painting,” Ms. Darby said of the gardens, as she stood on the west porch, admiring the long view down to the river and across to the Palisades.

Indeed, this tension can be quite literally seen in many Hudson River school paintings that simultaneously depict both the landscape’s aesthetic charms while noting the presence of industry.

It used to be the Hudson River school.

He was one of the best known of the Hudson River school group, though it was at Lake George that he found most of his themes.

I kept wishing for a quirky, flattened landscape or marine view by the great Thomas Chambers to disrupt the fussy verisimilitude and endless vistas of the Hudson River school paintings.