Even though it is over 100 years old, The Hudson River School of painters is still considered the preferred style of landscape painting by many Americans. Founded by Thomas Cole, the Hudson River School brought landscape painting to the forefront in America. Large-scale large paintings of idyllic Hudson Valley scenes became "crowd pleasers" in museums and exhibits. Following the ideology of Manifest Destiny, Hudson Valley painters moved westward to creat a visual narrative of America as a new Garden of Eden for white European settlers. American painters, including Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper would take the landscape genre into the twentieth century. Elements of modernism began to emerge with New York experimental painters John Marin, Arthur Dove, and Georgia O'keefe. By the 1920's Hopper was adding a psychological element into the American landscape with paintings like his House on the Railroad, 1924. Landscape is still an important genre in American painting, represented now by painter Alex Katz and others.