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- Collection: Before Bard: A Sense of Place
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Autumn--On the Hudson River
Cropsey creates a sublime depiction of the arrival of autumn along the Hudson River
Kindred Spirits
Sublime Romanticized painting of Thomas Cole and William Cullen Bryant standing at a gorge in the Catskills
Sunset & Catskills from Church Hill, Olana
Painting from one of the Hudson River School painters, emblematic of a depiction of the picturesque.
Catskill Mountain House: The Four Elements
Painting by Thomas Cole, member of Hudson River School, to illustrate a depiction of sublimity in the age of American Romanticism
Blithewood Swimming Pool
This postcard depicts another angle of the Blithewood pool. Acquired by Bard with the Blithewood estate in 1951, the college maintained the pool until the early 1970s. In the spring 2005 issue of About Town magazine, Dorothy Crane writes about the…
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"View Over Cruger's Island"
Photograph of oil sketch on board of a view looking towards Cruger's Island from an area that would today be the Ward Manor area of Bard College…