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The Main Street America logo features a
1938 watercolor, "Cold Spring-on-Hudson," by artist Emil Holzhauer
(1887-1986). Born in Germany and originally trained as a steel engraver
and jewelry designer, Holzhauer's first love was painting. He came to New
York in the early 1900s and trained with the Robert Henri School. Fellow
artists included Edward Hopper, George Bellows and Rockwell Kent, whose
style depicting the common man in everyday experiences became known as the
"Ashcan School of Art."
It is said that this painting of Cold
Spring-on-Hudson, with the Hudson River and Storm King Mountain in the
background, is one of many with which Holzhauer paid his monthly rent
while in residence at a Cold Spring hotel that is now home to the Hudson
House River Inn. The painting is part of a private collection.