19th century American landscape painting, depicting the American wilderness (
including movements like Hudson River School and
Luminism) is a particular strength of the museum and
includes works by Frederic Church (1826 - 1900) and Thomas Cole (1801 - 48).
Exponents of
Luminism included frontier painters like Missouri man George Caleb Bingham (1811 - 1879), as well as wilderness or coastal landscape artists - from the Hudson River School and other groups / locations from around America -
including Fitz Hugh Lane (1804 - 1865)(Nathaniel Rogers Lane), Martin Johnson Heade (1819 - 1904), Frederic Edwin Church (1826 - 1900), as well as John F. Kensett (1816 - 72), Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823 - 1900), Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823 - 80), Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902), William Trost Richards (1833 - 1905), Norton Bush (1834 - 94), Edmund Darch Lewis (1835 - 1910), Alfred T. Bricher (1837 - 1908), Thomas Moran (1837 - 1926), George Tirrell, Henry Walton, and JW Hill.