Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
early life and career thomas doughty, an american artist, was born on july 19, 1793, in philadelphia. he is renowned for being the first american artist to work exclusively as a landscapist, paving the way for the hudson river school art movement. artistic style and notable works doughty's quiet, often atmospheric landscapes of the rivers and mountains of pennsylvania, new york, new england, and especially the hudson river valley, are c
haracteristic of his style. some notable works include: view toward the hudson river (1839), princeton university art museum ruins in a landscape (1828) in the catskills (1836), reynolda house museum of american art landscape after ruisdael (ca. 1846), brooklyn museum view of the fairmount waterworks, philadelphia, from the opposite side of the schuylkill river (1824/26), museum of fine arts, houston legacy and influence doughty's wo…
