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Thomas Cole
Campagna di Roma
1832; Oil on paper,
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Thomas Cole
Aqueduct near Rome
1832; Oil on canvas
Washington University
Gallery of Art, St.
Louis, Missouri
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Thomas Cole
Interior of the Colosseum Rome
1832Oil on canvas
Albany Institute of
History and Art,NY
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Thomas Cole
View near Tivoli
1832;
Oil on canvas;
Metropolitan
Museum of Art
New York City
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Thomas Cole
The Cascatelli ivoli, Looking Towards Rome
1832Oil on canvas
Columbus
Museum of Art
Ohio
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Thomas Cole
Romantic Landscape with Ruined Tower
1832 Oil on
composition board
Albany Institute of
History and Art, NY
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Thomas Cole
Titan s Goblet
1833Oil on canvas
Metropolitan
Museum of Art,NY
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Thomas Cole
Scene from Manfred
1833Oil on canvas
Yale University Art
Gallery, New Haven,
Connecticut
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Thomas Cole
Italian Scene, Composition
1833Oil on canvas
NY Historical
Society,New York
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Thomas Cole
Catskill Scenery
1833Oil on canvas
St. Louis Art
Museum, Missouri
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Thomas Cole
Moonlight
Oil on canvas
NY Historical
Society,New York
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Thomas Cole
Tornado
Oil on canvas;
Corcoran Gallery
of Art,Washington
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Thomas Cole
View of the Arno
1835 Oil on canvas
Thyssen-
Bornemisza
Museum, Madrid
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Thomas Cole
The Oxbow
1836
Oil on canvas;
New York Historical
Society, New York
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Thomas Cole
Sketch for 'View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton,Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm
1836; Oil and pencil
composition board
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Thomas Cole
The Savate State
1836Oil on canvas
New York Historical
Society, New York
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Thomas Cole
Course of Empire
Arcadian or Pastoral
State 1836;
Oil on canvas;
New York Historical
Society,New York
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Thomas Cole
Course of Empire Consumation of Empire
1836Oil on canvas
New York Historical
Society, New York
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Thomas Cole
Course of Empire Destruction
1836;
Oil on canvas;
New York Historical
Society, New York
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Thomas Cole
Course of Empire Desolation
1836
Oil on canvas;
New York Historical
Society, New York
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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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