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Thomas Cole
The Voyage of Life: Old Age (mk13)
1840 Oil on canvas
51 3/4 x 78 1/4''
The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Utica,New York
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Thomas Cole
Valley of the Vaucluse (mk13)
1841 Oil on canvas
69 x 49 1/8''
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York Gift of William E.Dodge,1903
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Thomas Cole
Self-Portrait (mk13)
c 1836.Oil on canvas,
22 x 18''
Courtesy The New-York Historical Society New York City
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Thomas Cole
Mount Etna (mk13)
1842 Oil on canvas 32 x 48''
Collection IBM Corporation Armonk,New York
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Thomas Cole
Catskill Mountain House (mk13)
1843-44 Oil on canvas 29 x 36''
Alexander Gallery New York City
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Thomas Cole
Roman Campagna (mk13)
1843 Oil on canvas,32 1/2 x 48''
Wadsworth Atheneum,Hartford,Connecticut,Bequest of Mrs.Clara Hinton Gould
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Thomas Cole
The Temple of Segesta with the Artist Sketching (mk13)
c 1843 .Oil on canvas
19 1/2 x 30''
Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts,Boston Gift of Mrs Maxim Karolik for the Karolik Collection of American Paintings,1815-1865
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Thomas Cole
The Temple of Segesta with the Artist Sketching (mk13)
c 1843 .Oil on canvas
19 1/2 x 30''
Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts,Boston Gift of Mrs Maxim Karolik for the Karolik Collection of American Paintings,1815-1865
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Thomas Cole
Evening in Arcady (mk13)
1843 Oil on canvas
32 5/8 x 48 3/8''
Wadsworth Atheneum,Hartford,Connecticut Bequest of Mrs.Clara Hinton Gould
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Thomas Cole
Mount Etna from Taormina (mk13)
1843 Oil on canvas,
78 5/8 x 120 5/8''
Wadsworth Atheneum,Harford
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Thomas Cole
L'Allegro (mk13)
1845 Oil on canvas
21 1/16 x 48''
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art,Gift of the Art ,Gift of the Art Museum Council and the Michael J.Connell Foundation
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Thomas Cole
The Pic-Nic (mk13)
1846 Oil on canvas 44 7/8 x 71 7/8''
The Brooklyn Museum A Augustus Healy Fund
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Thomas Cole
Il Penseroso (mk13)
1845 Oil on canvas,
1845 Oil on canvas,
32 1/4 x 48''
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Trustees Fund,Corporate Donors and General Acquisition Fund
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Thomas Cole
The Old Mill at Sunset (mk13)
1845 Oil on canvas,26 1/8 x 36''
Alexander Gallery,New York
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Thomas Cole
Home in the Woods (mk13)
1847 Oil on canvas 44 x 66''
Reynolda House,
Museum of American Art,Winston-Salem,North Carolina
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Thomas Cole
Arch of Nero (mk13)
1846 Oil on canvas
60 x 48''
Collection the Newark Museum Newark,New Jersey,
Purchase 1957
Sophronia Anderson Bequest Fund
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Thomas Cole
Study for The Cross and the World:The Pilgrim of the Cross at the End of His Journey (mk13)
c 1846-48 Oil on canvas 12 x 18''
National Museum of American Art,Smithsonian Institution,Washington,K.C.Museum Purchase
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Thomas Cole
The Pilgrim of the World at the End of His Journey (mk13)
c 1846-48 Oil on canvas,
12 x 18''
National Museum of American Art,Smithsonian Institution,Washington,D.C,
Museum Purchase
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Thomas Cole
Unfinished Landscape (The Cross at Sunset) (mk13)
c 1847.Oil on canvas
32 x 48 1/2''
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection,Lugano,Switzerland
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Thomas Cole
The Mountain Ford (mk13)
1846 Oil on canvas
28 1/4 x 40 1/16''
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York,Bequest of Maria De Witt Jesup,1915
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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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