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TITLE: PAINTING - West of the Imagination - 19TH CENTURY

DESCRIPTION: CHURCH. HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL (Cole's successors). Abandoned easel painting for huge canvas. Cole his teacher. Important by age 20. Collected important details with Cole in sketches and combined them with ea other. Only artist who didn't go to Europe. He adventured in N. and S. America instead.