Historical Marker
Kingston Area
Historical marker location:
Lake Katrine, New York
( Marker is on New York Thruway (Interstate 87), on the right when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 1963
Historic New York.
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.