Cornelius Heeney

Historical marker location:

180 Court Street, Brooklyn, New York

( Marker is at the intersection of Court Street and Congress Street, on the right when traveling south on Court Street.)

Marker installed: 1998

1754-1848.

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.