Hudson River School Paintings for the Dining Room

Here are 50 Hudson River School paintings for the dining room, painted between 1826 and 1903, with works by Jasper Francis Cropsey, Thomas Cole and Worthington Whittredge; the subjects they return to most are landscapes, and mountains. Dining rooms have hosted still lifes for four hundred years for a reason.

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Autumn Landscape, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Orange County, New York, Jasper Francis Cropsey 16 × 20 in landscape print (41 × 51 cm), centered 47¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the dining table. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Autumn Landscape, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Orange County, New York, Jasper Francis Cropsey, ca. 1870–75, oil on canvas

Jasper Francis Cropsey Autumn Landscape, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Orange County, New York, ca. 1870–75 The Met

The Amphitheatre of Tusculum and Albano Mountains, Rome, Worthington Whittredge, 1860, oil on canvas

Worthington Whittredge The Amphitheatre of Tusculum and Albano Mountains, Rome, 1860 Smithsonian American Art Museum

This painting shows two large pears on a white tablecloth. The pear on the left is a pinkish color and sits directly on the cloth. The pear on the right is yellow, and it rests on a white plate next to a small knife.

Sanford Robinson Gifford Two Pears on a Tabletop, c. 1866 National Gallery of Art

Indians in Council, California, Albert Bierstadt, ca. 1872, oil on paper on canvas

Albert Bierstadt Indians in Council, California, ca. 1872 Smithsonian American Art Museum

Cliffs of the Upper Colorado River, Wyoming Territory, Thomas Moran, 1882, oil on canvas

Thomas Moran Cliffs of the Upper Colorado River, Wyoming Territory, 1882 Smithsonian American Art Museum

Near Ariccia, Italy, Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1868, oil on canvas

Sanford Robinson Gifford Near Ariccia, Italy, 1868 Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Beeches, Asher Brown Durand, 1845, oil on canvas

Asher Brown Durand The Beeches, 1845 The Met

Gathering Storm on Long Island Sound, John Frederick Kensett, 1872, oil on canvas

John Frederick Kensett Gathering Storm on Long Island Sound, 1872 The Met

Twilight in the Wilderness, Frederic Edwin Church, 1860, oil on canvas

Frederic Edwin Church Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860 Cleveland Museum of Art

Painting of a small stream in the middle of the woods. In the center of the painting, there is a small waterfall over a large boulder.

Albert Bierstadt Mountain Brook, 1863 Art Institute of Chicago

Indians at Campfire--Moon Rising, Sanford Robinson Gifford, oil on paper on canvas

Sanford Robinson Gifford Indians at Campfire--Moon Rising, Smithsonian American Art Museum

View of Florence, Thomas Cole, 1837, oil on canvas

Thomas Cole View of Florence, 1837 Cleveland Museum of Art

View on the Catskill—Early Autumn, Thomas Cole, 1836–37, oil on canvas

Thomas Cole View on the Catskill—Early Autumn, 1836–37 The Met

The top three-quarters of this horizontal landscape painting is filled with roiling, deeply shadowed clouds that tower over a line of buffalo crossing a grassy meadow below.

Albert Bierstadt Buffalo Trail: The Impending Storm, 1869 National Gallery of Art

We look across a palm-tree lined river winding into the distance before a monumental, snow-covered mountain at the center of the composition in this horizontal landscape.

Frederic Edwin Church Tamaca Palms, 1854 National Gallery of Art

Honey-gold sunlight from low along the horizon to our left falls across the copper and bronze-colored canopies of trees that frame our view of a stone church with stained glass windows and ornate spires in this horizontal landscape…

Thomas Cole The Return, 1837 National Gallery of Art

In a verdant green landscape, a stone castle sits on a tree-lined hill in the distance in front of a high, craggy mountain peak while eighteen armored knights ride toward us along a bridge and path in this horizontal painting.

Thomas Cole The Departure, 1837 National Gallery of Art

Two thick, twisting, splintered tree trunks with broken branches stripped of leaves are set against a dark, wooded landscape beneath a nearly black sky in this horizontal landscape painting.

Thomas Cole Tornado in an American Forest, 1831 National Gallery of Art

We look across a wide, low clearing at a mountain rising beyond rocky hills, which are mostly covered in pines and blazing red and orange autumn trees, in this horizontal landscape painting.

Thomas Cole A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch), 1839 National Gallery of Art

Hulking mountains are mostly backlit against a watery blue sky edged with shell pink along the horizon, which comes about two-thirds of the way up this horizontal landscape painting.

Thomas Cole Sunrise in the Catskills, 1826 National Gallery of Art

New England Scenery, Thomas Cole, 1839, oil on canvas

Thomas Cole New England Scenery, 1839 Art Institute of Chicago

A Home in the Wilderness, Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1866, oil on canvas

Sanford Robinson Gifford A Home in the Wilderness, 1866 Cleveland Museum of Art

Landscape with Haywain, Worthington Whittredge, 1861, oil on canvas

Worthington Whittredge Landscape with Haywain, 1861 Cleveland Museum of Art

Pompton Plains, New Jersey, Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1867, oil on canvas

Jasper Francis Cropsey Pompton Plains, New Jersey, 1867 The Met

Landscape—Scene from "Thanatopsis", Asher Brown Durand, 1850, oil on canvas

Asher Brown Durand Landscape—Scene from "Thanatopsis", 1850 The Met

Newport Rocks, John Frederick Kensett, 1872, oil on canvas

John Frederick Kensett Newport Rocks, 1872 The Met

October in the Marshes, John Frederick Kensett, 1872, oil on canvas

John Frederick Kensett October in the Marshes, 1872 The Met

Twilight in the Cedars at Darien, Connecticut, John Frederick Kensett, 1872, oil on canvas

John Frederick Kensett Twilight in the Cedars at Darien, Connecticut, 1872 The Met

A dirt path winds through a field of gold-green grass back to a town built on low hills in this horizontal, densely hazy landscape painting. Several minuscule people walk on the path and at least one person rides a horse.

Sanford Robinson Gifford Siout, Egypt, 1874 National Gallery of Art

A placid river winds past low hills with cows to fields blanketed with trees leading back to mountains lining the horizon in this hazy, horizontal, landscape painting.

Asher Brown Durand A Pastoral Scene, 1858 National Gallery of Art

We look sightly down and across a green meadow in front of us at a grove of tall trees to our left next to a shimmering body of water, before a deep view of distant mountains beneath an ice-blue sky in this horizontal landscape.

Asher Brown Durand Pastoral Landscape, 1861 National Gallery of Art

Noon in the Orchard, Worthington Whittredge, 1900, oil on canvas

Worthington Whittredge Noon in the Orchard, 1900 Smithsonian American Art Museum

Valley of Cuernavaca, Thomas Moran, 1903, oil on canvas

Thomas Moran Valley of Cuernavaca, 1903 Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Camp Meeting, Worthington Whittredge, 1874, oil on canvas

Worthington Whittredge The Camp Meeting, 1874 The Met

A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove), Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1862, oil on canvas

Sanford Robinson Gifford A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove), 1862 The Met

The Old Pine, Darien, Connecticut, John Frederick Kensett, 1872, oil on canvas

John Frederick Kensett The Old Pine, Darien, Connecticut, 1872 The Met

Evening in the Woods, Worthington Whittredge, 1876, oil on canvas

Worthington Whittredge Evening in the Woods, 1876 The Met

The Trout Pool, Worthington Whittredge, 1870, oil on canvas

Worthington Whittredge The Trout Pool, 1870 The Met

Cool light filters through a thick, verdant forest in this vertical landscape painting. Most of the trees have high canopies with celery, matcha, and olive-green leaves.

Asher Brown Durand Forest in the Morning Light, c. 1855 National Gallery of Art

Woodland Glen, Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1850-1855, oil on canvas

Asher Brown Durand Woodland Glen, ca. 1850-1855 Smithsonian American Art Museum

We look across the gleaming, forest-green surface of a lake at the foot of tall, jagged mountains in this horizontal landscape painting.

Albert Bierstadt Mount Corcoran, c. 1876-1877 National Gallery of Art

Sunrise in the Sierras, Albert Bierstadt, ca. 1872, oil on paper mounted on paperboard

Albert Bierstadt Sunrise in the Sierras, ca. 1872 Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Pilgrim of the World at the End of His Journey (study for the series, The Cross and the World), Thomas Cole, ca. 1847, oil on canvas

Thomas Cole The Pilgrim of the World at the End of His Journey (study for the series, The Cross and the World), ca. 1847 Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Valley of Wyoming, Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1865, oil on canvas

Jasper Francis Cropsey The Valley of Wyoming, 1865 The Met

This painting shows a landscape with tall, blue, snow-capped mountains in the distance. There are blue and purple clouds in the yellow sky.

Jasper Francis Cropsey View of Mt. Washington, 1881 National Gallery of Art

Untitled, Jasper Francis Cropsey, ca. 1875-1880, watercolor on paper

Jasper Francis Cropsey Untitled, ca. 1875-1880 Smithsonian American Art Museum

Untitled, Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1876, oil on canvas

Jasper Francis Cropsey Untitled, 1876 Smithsonian American Art Museum

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