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Thomas Cole
Genesee Scenery (mk13)
1847.Oil on canvas,51 x 39 1/2''
Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design,Providence,Jesse Metcalf Fund
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Thomas Cole
The Ages of Life:Youth (mk13)
1842
Oil on canvas,134 x 194 cm
Washington (DC),National Gallery of Art
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Thomas Cole
View in the White Mountains (mk13)
c 1827.Oil on canvas,27 1/8 x 32 1/4''
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Museum Purchase M.H.de Young Art Trust Fund
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Thomas Cole
The Hunter's Returm (mk13)
1845 Oil on canvas
40 1/8 x 60 1/2''
Amon Carter Museum,Fort Worth
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Thomas Cole
Schroon Mountain,Adirondacks (mk13)
1838 Oil on canvas,39 3/8 x 63''
The Cleveland Museum of Art,Hinman B.Hurlbut collection
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Thomas Cole
A Wild Scene (mk13)
1831-32 Oil on canvas
50 3/4 x 76 1/4''
The Baltimore Museum of Art,Leonce Rabillon Bequest Fund,by exchange,and Purchase Fund
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Thomas Cole
The Voyage of Life,Youth (mk19)
1842
Oil on canvas,134.3 x 194.9 cm
National Gallery,Washington(DC)
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Thomas Cole
scene from Last of the Mohicans (nn03)
1827
Oil on canvas 64,.5 x 89 cm 25 3/8 x 35 1/16 in Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford CT
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Thomas Cole
The Course of Empire:Desolation (mk43)
1836
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Thomas Cole
Mount Etna from Taormina
mk48
1843
Oil on canvas
78 3/8x120 5/8in
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art,Hartford,Connecticut,Purchased from the artist by Daniel Wadsworth for the Wadsworth Atheneum,assisted by Alfred Smith
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Thomas Cole
A View of the Two Lakes and Mountain House,Catskill Mountains Morning
mk48
1844
Oil on canvas
35 13/16x53 7/8in
Brooklyn Museum,Dick S.Ramsay Fund
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Thomas Cole
View on the Catskill-Early Autumn
mk48
1836-37
Oil on canvas
39x63in
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,Gift in Memory of Jonathan Sturges by his children
1895
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Thomas Cole
The Pic-Nic
mk48
Oil on canvas
47 7/8x54in
Brooklyn Musem,A.Augustus Healy Fund
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Thomas Cole
Cross at Sunset
mk48
ca.1848
Oil on canvas
32x48 1/2in
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza,Madrid
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Thomas Cole
Vue du mont Holyoke,pres de Northampton dans le Massachusetts Apres l'orage
mk75
1836
Huile sur toile
130.8x193cm
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Thomas Cole
View from Mount Holyoke,Northampton,MA.after a Thunderstorm
mk77
1836
Oil on canvas
511/2x79in
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Thomas Cole
The Voyage of Life
mk87
Youth 18412
Oil on canvas
134.3x194.9cm
Washington,National Gallery of Art
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Thomas Cole
The Giant-s Chalice
mk87
1833
Oil on canvas
49.3x41cm
New York,The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Thomas Cole
The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge
mk136
Oil on canvas
1829
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Thomas Cole
A Pic-Nic Party
mk140
1846
Oil on canvas
21.6x137.2cm
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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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