The Hudson Valley has been attracting cultural influencers as far back as the early 1800s, when the British-born painter Thomas Cole inspired the Hudson River School with his evocative landscape artwork. In fact, the bucolic region just north of Manhattan, which stretches from Yonkers to Albany, expanding along both sides of the Hudson, has been defined almost as profoundly by artists and alternative thinkers as it has by its geography, from the renowned artists’ colony Byrdcliffe, near Woodstock, to the Dia Art Foundation’s expansive gallery in Beacon, to the open-air sculpture museum Storm King in New Windsor.
In 2014, painters Brice and Helen Marden set the tone for the kind of clash of contemporary art and design against centuries-old rustic architecture and lush greenery that has come to define hospitality in…
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Harper's Bazaar (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2022