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Thomas Cole
The Present
Oil on canvas
40 3/4 x 61 5/8 in.
1838
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Thomas Cole
The dream of the architect
Oil on canvas
1840
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Thomas Cole
The Titan's Goblet
Oil on canvas
49 x 41 cm
1833
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Thomas Cole
Cole Thomas Kaaterskill Falls
1826
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Thomas Cole
the course of empire
desolation 1836
oil on canvas 98.1x158.1cm
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Thomas Cole
Kaaterskill Falls
Description Cole Thomas Kaaterskill Falls
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Thomas Cole
Landscape with Dead Tree
Description Landscape with Dead Tree
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Thomas Cole
Romantic Landscape with Ruined Tower
Medium oil on board
Dimensions Unknown
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Thomas Cole
The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 35 3/4 x 47 3/4 in
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Thomas Cole
The Voyage of Life Childhood
oil on canvas, 134.3 X 195.3 cm
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Thomas Cole
The Voyage of Life Old Age
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Thomas Cole
The Voyage of Life Youth
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 134.3 X 194.9 cm
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Thomas Cole
Brock s Monumenttoday
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 75.57 cm X 113.03 cm
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Thomas Cole
Cross at Sunset
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 91.1 X 121.9 cm
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Thomas Cole
Moon and Firelight
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 91,4 x 122 cm
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Thomas Cole
Der Pokal des Riesen
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 49 X 41 cm
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Thomas Cole
The Present
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 40 3/4 x 61 5/8 in.
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Thomas Cole
Cross at Sunset
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 91.1 ?? 121.9 cm
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Thomas Cole
II Penseroso
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1845(1845)
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Thomas Cole
Romantic Landscape with Ruined Tower
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 86.4 x 116.8 cm
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1801-1848
Thomas Cole Galleries
Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 - February 11, 1848) was a 19th century American artist. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's Hudson River School, as well as his own work, was known for its realistic and detailed portrayal of American landscape and wilderness, which feature themes of romanticism and naturalism.
In New York he sold three paintings to George W. Bruen, who financed a summer trip to the Hudson Valley where he visited the Catskill Mountain House and painted the ruins of Fort Putnam. Returning to New York he displayed three landscapes in the window of a bookstore; according to the New York Evening Post, this garnered Cole the attention of John Trumbull, Asher B. Durand, and William Dunlap. Among the paintings was a landscape called "View of Fort Ticonderoga from Gelyna". Trumbull was especially impressed with the work of the young artist and sought him out, bought one of his paintings, and put him into contact with a number of his wealthy friends including Robert Gilmor of Baltimore and Daniel Wadsworth of Hartford, who became important patrons of the artist.
Cole was primarily a painter of landscapes, but he also painted allegorical works. The most famous of these are the five-part series, The Course of Empire, now in the collection of the New York Historical Society and the four-part The Voyage of Life. There are two versions of the latter, one at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the other at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York.
Cole influenced his artistic peers, especially Asher B. Durand and Frederic Edwin Church, who studied with Cole from 1844 to 1846. Cole spent the years 1829 to 1832 and 1841-1842 abroad, mainly in England and Italy; in Florence he lived with the sculptor Horatio Greenough.
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