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Thomas Cole
View of Florence from San Miniato
1837Oil on canvas
Cleveland Museum
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Thomas Cole
View on the Catskill Early Autumn
Oil on canvas;
Metropolitan Museum
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Thomas Cole
Sunset of the Arno
1837 Oil on canvas
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Thomas Cole
Schroon Mountain
Adirondacks,Essex
County, New York
after a Storm1838;
Oil on canvas;
Cleveland Museum
of Art, Ohio
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Thomas Cole
Departure
1838;
Oil on canvas;
Corcoran Gallery
of Art,Washington
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Thomas Cole
The Return
1838
Oil on canvas;
Corcoran Gallery
of Art,Washington
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Thomas Cole
The Past
1838;
Oil on canvas;
Mead Art Museum
Amherst College,
Massachusetts
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Thomas Cole
The Present
1838
Oil on canvas;
Mead Art Museum
Amherst College,
Massachusetts
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Thomas Cole
Sketch for Dream of Arcadia
Oil on paper, laid
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Thomas Cole
Dream of Arcadia
1838Oil on canvas
Denver Art Museum
Colorado
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Thomas Cole
Schroon Lake
1838
Oil on canvas;
34 x 46 in.
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Thomas Cole
Portage Falls on the Genesee
1839
Oil on canvas;
Historic Seward
House,Auburn,NY
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Thomas Cole
The Notch of the White Mountains
1839Oil on canvas
National Gallery
of Art, Washington
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Thomas Cole
The Voyage of Life Childhood
1839-40
Oil on canvas;
Munson-Williams-
Proctor Institute,
Utica, New York
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Thomas Cole
Voyage of Life Manhood
1840
Oil on canvas;
Munson-Williams
-Proctor Institute
Utica, New York
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Thomas Cole
Voyage of Life Old Age
1840;
Oil on canvas
Munson-Williams
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Utica, New York
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Thomas Cole
Architect s Dream
1840 Oil on canvas
Toledo Museum
of Art, Ohio
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Thomas Cole
The Gardens of Van Rensselaer Manor House
1840Oil on canvas
Albany Institute
of History and
Art, New York
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Thomas Cole
Valley of the Vaucluse
1841Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum
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Thomas Cole
Van Rensselaer Manor House
1841Oil on canvas
Albany Institute of
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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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