Which Transcendentalist figure was most directly involved in the 'Hudson River School' of landscape painting?
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Correct answer: None; it was an artists' movement that shared the Transcendentalist view of nature
The Hudson River School artists like Thomas Cole and Asher Durand were not 'Transcendentalists' by name, but their paintings were visual expressions of the movement's ideas. They depicted the American landscape as a sublime, divine space.
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