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Columbia Museum of Art hosts exhibition of unsurpassed collection of Hudson River School paintings

COLUMBIA, S.C.- Forty-five magnificent paintings from the rich collection of the New-York Historical Society will be on view at the Columbia Museum of Art this fall, beginning November 19, 2011 and on view through April 1, 2012 in a major traveling exhibition Nature and the Grand American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson River School Painters. Though individual works are very seldom loaned, these iconic works of 19th-century landscape painting are traveling on a national tour for the first time and are circulating to four museums around the country as part of the Historical Society’s traveling exhibitions program Sharing a National Treasure. The Columbia Museum of Art is the only stop in the Southeast. “The Museum is delighted to bring this extraordinary exhibition to Columbia, giving visitors from around the Southeast the opportunity to see incredibly beautiful works by highly skilled painters of the 19th centu