Finally, half a century after the Declaration of Independence, there was a distinctively American form of artistic expression: the depiction of pristine and forbidding wilderness.
This was a big event in the cultural history of the United States. Not long after, the promising young British-born painter Thomas Cole, sent to the environs of the Mountain House by a patron, produced “The Falls of the Kaaterskill,” a dramatized rendering of the leading natural wonder in the hotel’s vicinity. In 1824 a group of businessmen opened the Catskill Mountain House, America’s first grand resort hotel, in a spectacular but logistically challenging location at the top of a ledge about 1,500 feet above the Hudson Valley hamlet of Palenville, N.Y.
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