Director's Choice: "Storm King on the Hudson"


	Storm Clouds of Debate Kay Larsen, art critic for New York magazine, wrote about this 1866 painting of Storm King on the Hudson by Samuel Colman. She said it "marks the moment when paradise was invaded by men of commerce... Painters were left with a problem: what to do about the tanning factories, sawmills, paper factories, and the other small businesses that started to overtake the epic waterfalls and elegant forests along the Hudson." The debates we still have today about competing claims of preservation and development were already major issues in the mid-19th century. Samuel Colman gave "equal time" to both sides of the discussion by dividing his paintings neatly into halves. *Pictured: Samuel Colman, Storm King on the Hudson,* 1866, oil, 32 1/8 x 59 7/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly.**	Part 1 Discussion: Storm King on the Hudson (287K) Get QuickTime

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