Historical Marker
General Electric Building 32
Historical marker location:
Schenectady, New York
( Marker is on Erie Blvd, on the right when traveling east.)
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.