Up a Lazy River with the Director's Choice Tour
On this day in 1807, inventor Robert Fulton began the first steam-powered boat trip between Albany and New York City on the Clermont.Learn more about artist Samuel Colman's depiction of this industrial advancement in his painting Storm King on the Hudson on a virtual tour of the artwork with SAAM director Elizabeth Broun.
Pictured: Samuel Colman, 1832–1920 , Storm King on the Hudson, 1866, oil, 32 1/8 x 59 7/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly.
On this day in 1807, inventor Robert Fulton began the first steam-powered boat trip between Albany and New York City on the Clermont.Learn more about artist Samuel Colman's depiction of this industrial advancement in his painting Storm King on the Hudson on a virtual tour of the artwork with SAAM director Elizabeth Broun.