The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (230 page)

 
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Hudson River School
.

Term applied retrospectively to a number of American landscape painters, active
c.
1825–
c.
1875, who were inspired by pride in the beauty of their homeland. The early leaders and the three most important figures in the group were Thomas
Cole
, Thomas
Doughty
, and Asher B.
Durand
, who with a reverential spirit painted the Hudson River Valley, the Catskill Mountains, and other remote and untouched areas of natural beauty. These three artists and many of those who followed had studied in Europe and part of their inspiration came from painters of the grandiose and spectacular such as
Turner
and John
Martin
. The patriotic spirit of the painters of the Hudson River School won them great popularity in the middle years of the century. Painters of a similar outlook who found their inspiration in the far West are known collectively as the
Rocky Mountain School
.

 
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(d. 1759).
French
Rococo
painter, engraver, and designer, best known for paintings and engravings involving animals, dressed up and acting like humans (see
SINGERIE
). Good examples of his work are in the Musée Condé at Chantilly.

 
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Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art
.

See
LANE
.

 
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(1832–1915).
English painter and illustrator. In the 1850s he was one of the most distinguished of the
Pre-Raphaelite
sympathizers, remarkable for his lyrical delicacy of colour and drawing. Two paintings are particularly well known—
April Love
(Tate, London, 1856), which
Ruskin
called ‘exquisite in every way’, and
The Long Engagement
(City Art Gal., Birmingham, 1859). After about 1870, however, his work declined in quality, although he did some good book illustrations. He was shy and withdrawn and in later life he lived in suburban obscurity.

 
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(1938– ).
Australian art critic. In 1964 he moved to Europe (first to Italy, then England) and in 1970 settled in New York as art critic of
Time
magazine. His books include
The Art of Australia
(1966, revised 1970),
Heaven and Hell in Western Art
(1969), and
Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists
(1990), He has also made films for television, notably
The Shock of the New
, an eight-part series for the BBC in 1980 (with an accompanying book of the same title). He writes mainly on 20th-cent. art and has a richly deserved reputation as a witty and penetrating observer of the contemporary art scene.

 
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