Vin Tabone is the New York film producer of a PBS-aired, two-part documentary on The Hudson River School: a genre of dramatic, mid-19th century landscape paintings depicting the grandeur & the divine in America's wildernesses. We learn about: the main artists in the movement starting with founder Thomas Cole; the reception from New York City critics; their adventuresome travels to jungles, icebergs, Europe & the Wild West; their use of reoccurring symbols such as storm clouds & tree stumps; and the moral & religious messages they strived to convey. Vin shares fond memories of his childhood on the Hudson, seeing the paintings for the first time, & trips to the unspoiled locations. For story time, he reads "The Bewilderment" from Thomas Cole's journal: a blind & dizzying account of being lost in a stormy, black forest. The last section takes a mystery-provoking sharp turn into a handful of Vin's uncanny & paranormal experiences, adding ever more wonderment to the Our Numinous Nature canon. 

Aired on PBS & ALL ARTS channel, watch Vin's documentaries The Hudson River School: Part 1: Artistic Pioneers & Part 2: Cultivating a Tradition via Amazon Prime Video.

Reference Images:
*Thomas Cole, Lake with Dead Trees [1825]
*Thomas Cole, Home in the Woods [1847]
*Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire  series [1833-1836]
*Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life series [1842]
*Frederic Church, Heart of the Andes [1859]
*Frederic Church, Niagara [1857]
*Albert Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, Landers Peak [1863]
*Albert Bierstadt, The Last of the Buffalo [1888]
*Albert Bierstadt, Mount Corcoran [1876-1887]
*Asher Durand, Kindred Spirits [1849]
*Jasper Cropsey, Autumn - On the Hudson River [1860]
*Martin Johnson Heade, Hummingbird & Passionflowers [1875-1885]
*Sanford Gifford, The Mouth of the Shrewsbury River, [1867]



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