Among the most notable artists who have painted in the White Mountains was John Frederick Kensett (1816-1872). A painter of the Hudson River School, his Mount Chocorua (1864-66) typifies American Luminism. This important art movement, containing a transcendental realism of the sublime, incorporates an inner illumination of an almost spiritual light (color), expressive geometric effects of composition (space), and the isolation of the American wilderness setting (silence).