美国2014《哈德逊河画派》邮票首日实寄封之二

美国邮政于2014年8月21日美国集邮学会APS邮展期间，发行《哈德逊河画派》邮票全套4枚，面值当时为49美分，首日封上贴1枚哈德逊河画派创始人，美国浪漫主义风景画之父托马斯・科尔（1801-1848）《尼亚加拉大瀑布远景》1829 年 5 月，科尔亲赴尼亚加拉大瀑布写生。彼时瀑布周边已遍布工厂、旅馆与观景台，旅游业与工业开发痕迹显著。科尔刻意剔除所有人文建筑，以浪漫主义视角重构未受侵扰的原始荒野，悼念日渐消失的自然净土，现藏芝加哥艺术博物馆（Art Institute of Chicago）。另一枚是哈德逊河画派第二代核心人物，科尔唯一的入室弟子弗雷德里克・埃德温・丘奇（Frederic Edwin Church）——《日落》（Sunset, 1856），以落日余晖为绝对主体，天空被金红、橙紫、玫红层层晕染，地平线微光通透；地面山峦、林木呈深褐、墨绿剪影，明暗与冷暖对比极致强烈，现藏纽约州尤蒂卡市，曼森 - 威廉姆斯 - 普罗克特艺术学院美术馆。合计面值98美分，补资20美分，盖首发城市康涅狄格州 哈特福德地名首日纪念戳实寄往中国。

On August 21, 2014, during the American Philatelic Society (APS) stamp show, the United States Postal Service issued the complete set of four "Hudson River School" stamps, each with a face value of 49 cents at the time. On the first-day cover, one stamp features Thomas Cole (1801-1848), the founder of the Hudson River School and the father of American romantic landscape painting, depicting his work Distant View of Niagara Falls (1829). In May 1829, Cole traveled to Niagara Falls to paint en plein air. By then, the area around the falls was already dotted with factories, hotels, and observation platforms, showing significant signs of tourism and industrial development. Cole deliberately removed all man-made structures, reconstructing, from a romantic perspective, an untouched primeval wilderness as a tribute to the vanishing natural landscape. The painting is now housed at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The other stamp features Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), the second-generation core figure of the Hudson River School and Cole's only formal student, with his painting Sunset (1856). The composition is dominated by the afterglow of the setting sun, with the sky layered in golden red, orange-purple, and magenta, while a faint glow appears on the horizon. The mountains and trees below appear as dark brown and dark green silhouettes, creating an extreme contrast of light and shadow, warmth and coolness. The painting is now in the collection of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art in Utica, New York.

The total face value of the two stamps is 98 cents, with an additional 20-cent postage to make up the rate. The cover was canceled with the first-day of issue commemorative postmark from Hartford, Connecticut, the first-day city, and sent by airmail to China.

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