Hudson River School collection

20 paintings of the Hudson River School, the landscape painters of American Romanticism. Painted between 1828 and 1871, by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, John Frederick Kensett and others. Most are from the Cleveland Museum of Art.

iPhone wallpaper from a painting: volcano erupting at night with red glow on smoke and snow and figures on the dark slope — Mount Vesuvius at Midnight

Albert Bierstadt

1893 × 3366TS·0355
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: sunbeams through cloud onto a mountain lake with dark firs on the far shore — Mount Starr King, Yosemite

Albert Bierstadt

2160 × 3840TS·0354
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iPhone wallpaper from a painting: autumn scrub in red and gold before a wide valley and blue mountains under a soft sky — An October Day in the White Mountains

John Frederick Kensett

1814 × 3225TS·0358
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Dark moody desktop background from a painting: small glowing figures fleeing through a rocky gateway from a sunlit paradise into a dark wilderness, a volcano erupting in the distance, a beam of light cutting through storm clouds — Expulsion from the Garden of Eden

Thomas Cole

2160 × 3840TS·0461
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Dark moody vertical iPhone background from a painting: storm-split birch trunk glowing golden against dark purple-grey storm clouds, pink mist in a mountain gorge, menacing and dramatic — Storm in the Mountains

Frederic Edwin Church

1913 × 3400TS·0043
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: dark red rock arch over emerald water framing a hazy Mediterranean bay, a tall ship in the distance, scrub-covered cliffs and misty mountains — Natural Bridge, Sorrento

William Stanley Haseltine

2040 × 3626TS·0046
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: autumn river flanked by crimson and gold trees, a snow-capped peak in the far distance, grey cloudy sky, figures resting by a canoe on the bank — Mount Washington, New Hampshire

Jasper F. Cropsey

1949 × 3464TS·0045
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Dark moody desktop background from a painting: a lush garden framed by palms and vines, a waterfall glowing through mist in the distance, small figures near a quiet pool — The Garden of Eden

Thomas Cole

2160 × 3840TS·0465
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Dark moody vertical iPhone background from a painting: enormous jagged dark rock spire rising from a still teal sea, pink hazy sky, a small rowboat with figures, a sailing ship tiny on the horizon — Capri

William Stanley Haseltine

1748 × 3108TS·0054
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: flat marsh with a haystack, a broad bank of cloud and low sun across the grass — Sunlight and Shadow: The Newbury Marshes

Martin Johnson Heade

2160 × 3840TS·0297
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Desktop background from a painting: a headless marble colossus striding above a sacked ancient city, shield raised, fire and black smoke pouring along a long colonnade behind it, fighting and fallen bodies on the steps below — The Course of Empire: Destruction

Thomas Cole

2139 × 3802TS·0460
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: sunlight breaking over a mountain lake with deer at the shore and a waterfall on the cliff behind — Among the Sierra Nevada, California

Albert Bierstadt

2152 × 3825TS·0350
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: tropical river valley with palm trees, gondola on calm water, figures by a fountain, domed buildings and blue mountains in golden light — Vale of Kashmir

Robert S. Duncanson

2148 × 3818TS·0042
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iPhone wallpaper from a painting: dark forest of massive arching trees with tangled trunks, a lone woman in blue and white sitting in dappled light at the base, deep green shadows — In the Woods

George Inness

1913 × 3400TS·0053
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Dark moody vertical iPhone background from a painting: sheep grazing in a green meadow under broad oaks with russet leaves, a seated figure in red, storm clouds massing on the horizon — Durham, Connecticut

George Inness

1865 × 3316TS·0047
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: rocky New England shoreline with autumn trees, calm grey-blue bay, distant sailboats, muted ochre and grey palette — View near Newport

John Frederick Kensett

1569 × 2790TS·0057
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Dark moody desktop background from a painting: a small boat carrying an elderly figure adrift on dark water, a glowing angel pointing toward a break of golden light in heavy storm clouds — The Voyage of Life: Old Age

Thomas Cole

1930 × 3431TS·0466
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Dark moody desktop background from a painting: an architect reclining atop a column, framed by green drapery and looking out over an imagined skyline of Egyptian, Greek and Gothic monuments bathed in golden light — The Architect's Dream

Thomas Cole

2160 × 3840TS·0463
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iPhone wallpaper from a painting: wide pale bay with sailing boats and a red rowing boat in front below hills in haze — Haverstraw Bay

Sanford Robinson Gifford

2143 × 3810TS·0357
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Dark moody desktop background from a painting: classically robed figures at leisure beside a marble temple in a golden pastoral valley, distant mountains under a warm hazy sky — Dream of Arcadia (copy)

2003 × 3560TS·0464
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All 20 are phone wallpapers, 5 of them at 2160 × 3840 or larger. Free to download and set as your background, no account needed.

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