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Thomas Cole
Sunrise in the Catskill Mountains (mk13)
1826 Oil on canvas
25 1/2 x 35 1/2''
National Gallery of Art,Washington,D.C
Gift of Mrs.John D.Rockefeller 3rd in honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
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Thomas Cole
Landscape with Dead Tree (mk13)
1828 Oil on canvas
26 1/2 x 32 1/2''
Museum of Art,Rhode Island School of Design,Providence Walter H.Kimball Fund
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Thomas Cole
Indian Sacrifice (mk13)
1827.Oil on canvas 36 x 48''
University of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia
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Thomas Cole
Autumn in the Catskills (mk13)
1827
Oil on wood panel 18 5/8 x 25 7/16
Arnot Art Museum,Elmira,New York
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Thomas Cole
Landscape Composition Saint John in the Wilderness (mk13)
1827 oil on canvas
36 x 28 15/16''
Wasworth Atheneum,Hartford,Connecticut,Bequest of Daniel Wadsworth OPPOSITE :Detail
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Thomas Cole
Tornado (mk13)
1835.oil on canvas
46 3/8 x 64 5/8''
Collection The Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington,KC
Museum Purchase,Gallery Fund
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Thomas Cole
Aqueduct near Rome (mk13)
1832 oil on canvas
44 1/2 x 67 1/2''
Washington University Gallery of Art,St.Louis University Purchase Bixby Fund,By exchange,1987
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Thomas Cole
Landscape Composition:Italian Scenery (mk13)
1831-32 Oil on canvas,40 3/4 x 61 1/2''
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Rochester,New York,Purchased through the Marion Stratton Gould Fund and with the gift of Mr.and Mrs.Thomas H.Hawks
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Thomas Cole
A View near Tivoli (Morning) (mk13)
1832 Oil on canvas
14 3/4 x 23 1/8''
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York,Rogers Fund 1903
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Thomas Cole
The Cascatelli,Tivoli,Kooking Towards Rome (mk13)
c 1832 Oil on canvas
32 3/4 x 44 1/2''
Columbus,Ohio,onloan from Mr.and Mrs Walter Knight Sturges
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Thomas Cole
The Titan's Goblet (mk13)
1833 Oil on canvas,19 3/8 x 16 1/8''
The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Gift of Samuel P Avery Jr,.
1904
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Thomas Cole
The Course of Empire: The Consummation of Empire (mk13)
1836.Oil on canvas,
51 1/4 x 76''
Courtesy The New-York
Historical Society New York City
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Thomas Cole
The Course of Empire:Desolation (mk13)
1836.Oil on canvas,
39 1/4 x 63 1/4''
Courtesy The New-York
Historical Society,New York City
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Thomas Cole
The Departure (mk13)
1838.Oil on canvas, 39 1/2 x 63''
Iection the Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington,D.C Gift of William Wilson Corcoran
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Thomas Cole
The Return (mk13)
1838 Oil on canvas,
39 3/4 x 63''
Collection The Corcoran Gallery of Art,Washington,.D.C
Gift of William Wilson Corcoran
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Thomas Cole
View of Florence from San Miniato (mk13)
1837 Oil on canvas
39 x 63 1/8''
The Cleveland Museum of Art,Mr and Mrs William H.Marlatt Fund
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Thomas Cole
Dream of Arcadia (mk13)
1838 Oil on canvas,39 1/4 x 63 1/16''
Denver Art Museum,Gift of Mrs Katherine H.Gentry
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Thomas Cole
The Voyage of Life:Childhood (mk13)
1938-40 Oil on canvas,52 x 78''
The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute,Utica,New York
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Thomas Cole
The Voyage of Life:Youth (mk13)
1840 Oil on canvas,52 1/2 x 78 1/2''
The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Utica,New York
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Thomas Cole
The Voyage of Life:Manhood (mk13)
1840 Oil on canvas,52 x 78''
The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Utica,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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