| The untamed beauty of our mountains inspired some of the
most renowned artists of the 19th century. Masters such as Winslow Homer,
Frederic Remington, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait,
Samuel Colman, Sanford Gifford, Levi Wells Prentice (who painted no less
than nine views of Blue Mountain Lake and three of Prospect Point) and many
others penetrated the Adirondack backcountry, revealing to an amazed world
images of a Great Northern Wilderness existing only several hundred miles
from the country's greatest metropolis. Some of their finest masterworks
are housed across the lake in the collection of the Adirondack Museum
- an institution the NY TIMES called "the best of its kind
in the world." |
Cottage-side view