John W. Powell

Historical marker location:

43 Chapel Street, Mount Morris, New York

( Marker is at the intersection of Chapel Street (U.S. 408) and Stanley Street, on the left when traveling west on Chapel Street.)

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.