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The original Hudson Valley School, led by Cole, worked primarily in the Hudson River Valley region, and included Asher Brown Durand and Thomas Doughty, among others. A fine example of their work is Doughty's In the Catskills (1836; Reynolda House, Winston-Salem, North Carolina). The second generation, led by Albert Bierstadt, moved westwards into more seemingly foreign terrain. Both groups, sometimes called Romantic realists, were linked together by a style marked by painstaking detail and a love of America's untouched beauty.
The top left trigram symbolizes summer, south, and heaven. The top right trigram represents autumn, west, and the moon. The bottom right trigram stands for winter, north, and the Earth. The bottom left trigram represents spring, east, and the sun. Effective date: 21 February 1984.
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