School in the Forest Professional Development

Funded by the Hudson Estuary Program of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

Online Resources for the Hudson River Estuary and Black Rock Forest

This page provides links to other web sites with information about Hudson River art, history, and music. These links take you away from the Black Rock Forest web site.

Hudson River School of Art

This resource for the Hudson River Valley (hudsonriver.com) includes travel information and a section on art that contains links to drawings and paintings of the Hudson River School of Art Durand is not well represented but Church and Cropsey are.

This site (artarchive.com) contains a good collection of images from major painters (Bierstadt, Church, Cole, Durand, Heade, Inness, Kensett, Moran) which can be resized to fit the screen and enlarged to view details. Critical commentary is included. Research books are also thumbnailed here. For $50, schools can purchase two CDs of all the works on Artchive (some of which are Hudson River paintings) and also receive password access to the art without banners and ads.

There is not much text on this site (artlex.com) but it is a good source of images which can be enlarged — especially useful are those from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection of Hudson River art includes works by Durand and Cole. Once at the site, click American Painting and Sculpture and then search for Hudson River School.

This site (davisart.com) sells slides of art works. They have 131 images from the Hudson River School of Art which can be purchased at a reasonable price.

This is the site (thomascole.org) for Cedar Grove which was Cole’s home and is located in Catskill, NY.

This is the site (olana.org) for information about Frederick Church and Olana which is the home he built in Hudson, NY.

History of The Hudson River

This site contains information about Henry Hudson's exploration of the Hudson River from History World.

This site contains information about the Tinhorn Rebellion from Libcom.

This site contains information about Henry Hudson and the early history of the river, including the history of various Native American people, from the Hudson River Maritime Museum.

This site contains information about the Revolutionary War from the Hudson River Valley Institute of Marist College.

This site contains information about the history of the Hudson River Valley from Hudsonriver.com.

Music of The Hudson River

This site contains Songs of the Hudson River from Clearwater.