American Splendor: Hudson River School Masterworks October 31, 2006

The world's greatest collection of Hudson River School paintings returns, after a two-and-a-half year national tour. In addition to more than 60 major paintings by Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt, Sanford Gifford, John Kensett and others, 'American Splendor' will include a newly acquired landscape sketchbook, c. 1810-1820 by Daniel Wadsworth, alongside watercolors, prints, popular travel guides and Staffordshire plates bearing images of American scenery.