Closing 250th celebration: The Hudson River School of Art, The Catskills, and the American Identity

The talk will explore how American identity took shape in the Catskill Mountains following the Revolution, using the Hudson River School of Art as a lens to examine the Catskills’ emergence as a center of industry, leisure, and the nation’s first distinct artistic tradition. The lecture will be followed by a visit to the top of Haines Falls, a site captured in Hudson River School paintings, where the landscape and historic bridge offer insight into the formation of the country and its changing relationship with the natural world.

Starts at 11 am