The New York Times to Publish 10-Part Hudson River School Series Beginning May 27

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The New York Times to Publish 10-Part Hudson River School Series Beginning May 27

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Jun. 1 -/E-Wire/-- The lush landscape paintings of the Hudson River School, with their visions of nature at the dawn of the industrial

revolution, evoke a time and place seemingly far away from today's cynical and wired

world. But the 19th century artists posed questions that live on, and their legacies

touch all who have ever enjoyed a city park, or hiked in a forest, or pondered how

human beings and wilderness can coexist. This summer, The New York Times will publish

a 10-part series about the effect of The Hudson River School on the region, its

residents, and how we think of the wild.

Written by Kirk Johnson, regional environment writer for The Times's metropolitan

desk, the articles will begin on May 27 and run throughout the summer. Johnson returns

to the scenes of Hudson River School paintings to stand where the artists stood and

discovers how these landscapes have changed or stayed the same. He examines how the

artists both reflected and shaped their times on fundamental issues like urbanization, environmentalism and the costs and

benefits of economic progress. The series will range geographically from the high

peaks of the Adirondacks to Long Island Sound to the Catskills to urban New Haven and

old industrial towns along the Hudson River.

The first article goes to a hilltop in Warwick, NY, the setting for "Mounts Adam and

Eve,' which Jasper Francis Cropsey painted from his hilltop home in the 1880's.

Johnson tells the story of a Polish immigrant named John Woloszczak, who later came to

own the hilltop, and how he and his descendants were affected by the view Cropsey

loved and the artistic imprint he left behind. Future stories will explore: How a

Sanford Gifford painting of Hunter Mountain in the Catskills helped inspire an

industrialist's conversion to the then-new values of land conservation, creating an

imprint on forestry methods still felt today; and how the painters helped create Lake

George as a symbol of the emerging ideas of leisure and tourism - and what has

happened there since. Johnson will also journey with a group of contemporary artists

as they search for an illusive site in the Adirondacks where Alexander Wyant painted a

scene he called "The Flume.'

Kirk Johnson has been a New York Times reporter for more than 15 years, covering subjects from politics to economics to sports.

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