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Thomas Cole
Kaaterskill Falls s
1826Oil on canvas
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Thomas Cole
Landscape 325
the Seat of Mr.
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1826Oil on canvas
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Thomas Cole
Falls of Kaaterskill
1826 Oil on canvas
Alabama
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Thomas Cole
Daniel Boone Sitting
at the Door of His
Cabin on the Great
Osage Lake,
Kentucky
1826Oil on canvas
Mead Art Museum,
Amherst College,
Massachusetts
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Thomas Cole
Sunrise in the Catskill
Mountains
1826Oil on canvas
National Gallery
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Thomas Cole
Mountain Sunrise
Catskill 1826
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Thomas Cole
View of L Esperance on Schoharie River
1826Oil on canvas
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Thomas Cole
Gelyna e3
1826
Oil on panel
Fort Ticonderoga
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Thomas Cole
Indian Sacrifice
1827Oil on canvas
University of
Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia
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Thomas Cole
The Clove ws
Catskills
1827Oil on canvas
New Britain Museum
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Thomas Cole
Landscape1825
Oil on canvas;
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Landscape m76
Saint John in the
Wilderness1827
Oil on canvas;
Wadsworth
Atheneum,
Hartford,
Connecticut
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Thomas Cole
The Voyage of Life: Childhood
1842
52 7/8 x 77 7/8 in (133 x 198 cm)
Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, New York
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Thomas Cole
The Voyage of Life: Youth
1842
52 7/8 x 76 1/4 in (134 x 194 cm)
Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, New York
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Thomas Cole
The Voyage of Life: Manhood
1842
52 7/8 x 76 7/8 in (134 x 195 cm) National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Thomas Cole
The Voyage of Life: Old Age
1842
52 1/2 x 77 1/4 in (133 x 196 cm)
Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, New York
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Thomas Cole
The Connecticut River near Northampton
1846
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Thomas Cole
Expulsion From the Garden of Eden
1828
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Thomas Cole
The Consummation from the series : The Course of the Empire
1836
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Thomas Cole
Niagara Falls
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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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