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Thomas Cole
'The Ox Bow' of the Connecticut River near Northampton, Massachusetts
1836
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Thomas Cole
The Hunter's Return
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Thomas Cole
The Hunter's Return
Notch of White Mountins
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Thomas Cole
Notch of White Mountins
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Thomas Cole
Scene from The Last of the Mohicans
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Thomas Cole
Lake with Dead Trees
1825 Oil on canvas
Allen Memorial
Art Museum,
Oberlin College
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Thomas Cole
Mount Chocorua
New Hampshire
1827Oil on panel
23 x 32.5 in
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Thomas Cole
View on Schoharie
1826Oil on canvas
New York State
Historical Association
Cooperstown
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Thomas Cole
Autumn in Catskills
1827 Oil on panel
Arnot Art Museum
Elmira, New York
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Thomas Cole
View in the White Mountains
1827
Oil on canvas;
Wadsworth
Atheneum,
Hartford,
Connecticut
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Thomas Cole
Expulsion from Garden of Eden
1827Oil on canvas
Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston
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Thomas Cole
Autumn Landscape
1827Oil on canvas
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Thomas Cole
View of Monte Video, Seat of Daniel
1828Oil on panel
Wadsworth
Atheneum,
Hartford,
Connecticut
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Thomas Cole
Garden of Eden
1828 Oil on canvas
Amon Carter
Museum,
Fort Worth, Texas
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Thomas Cole
Expulsion - Moon and Firelight
1828
Oil on canvas;
Thyssen-Bornem
-isza Museum,
Madrid;
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Thomas Cole
Subsiding Waters of the Deluge
Oil on canvas;
National Museum
of American Art,
Washington,
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Thomas Cole
Niagara Falls
1830Oil on panel
Art Institute of
Chicago
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Thomas Cole
Morning Mist Rising
Plymouth, New
Hampshirec.1830;
Oil on canvas
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Thomas Cole
A Tornado in the Wilderness
Oil on canvas;
Corcoran Gallery
Washington, DC
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Thomas Cole
A Wild Scene
1831Oil on canvas
Baltimore Museum
of Art, Mar
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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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