Seymour Smith Academy

Historical marker location:

Pine Plains, New York

( Marker is at the intersection of Academy Street and Smith Street, on the right when traveling north on Academy Street.)

Marker installed: 1935

The Hudson River School of painting, which was a 19th-century art movement that focused on landscapes and the natural world, was founded in New York State. Some of its most famous artists, such as Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church, lived and worked in the Hudson River Valley.