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Thomas Cole
Mount Etna
1842
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Thomas Cole
Voyage of Life
1842
Oil on canvas;
National Gallery
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Thomas Cole
Voyage of Life Youth
1842;
Oil on canvas;
National Gallery
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Thomas Cole
Voyage of Life
1842Oil on canvas
National Gallery
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Thomas Cole
Voyage of Life Old Age
1842
Oil on canvas
National Gallery
of Art,Washington
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Thomas Cole
Evening in Arcady
1843Oil on canvas
Wadsworth
Atheneum,Hartford
Connecticut
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Thomas Cole
Roman Campagna
1843Oil on canvas
Wadsworth
Atheneum,Hartford
Connecticut
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Thomas Cole
Ruins of Taormina
1842;
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Thomas Cole
Mount Etna from Taormina
1843;
Oil on canvas;
Wadsworth
Atheneum,
Hartford,
Connecticut
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Thomas Cole
An Evening Arcady
1843Oil on canvas
Wadsworth
Athaneum,Hartford
Connecticut
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Thomas Cole
Angels Ministering to Christ in the Wilderness
1843
Oil on canvas;
Worcester Art
Museum,
Massachusetts
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Thomas Cole
Angels Ministering to Christ in the Wilderness
1843
Oil on canvas;
Worcester Art
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Thomas Cole
Temple of Segesta with the Artist Sketching
1843
Oil on canvas;
Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston
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Thomas Cole
Catskill Mountain
The Four
Elements1843-44
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Thomas Cole
American Lake Scene
1844;
Oil on canvas
Detroit Institute
of Arts,Michigan
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Thomas Cole
The Vale and Temple of Segesta
Sicily 1844;
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Thomas Cole
An Italian Autumn
1844Oil on canvas
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Thomas Cole
Frenchmans Bay Mt. Desert Island
1844Oil on panel
Albany Institute
of History and
Art, New York
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Thomas Cole
Italian Sunset
1845Oil on canvas
Los Angeles
County Museum
of Art, California
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Thomas Cole
Il Penseroso
1845
Oil on canvas;
Los Angeles
County Museum
of Art, California
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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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