Sugar Loaf School District #4

Historical marker location:

1410 Kings Hwy, Sugar Loaf, New York

( Marker is on Kings Highway, 0 miles west of Kings Highway Bypass (County Route 13), on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2000

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.