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Thomas Cole
View Across
Frenchman's Bay
from Mount
Desert Island,
After a Squall1845
Oil on canvas;
Cincinnati Art
Museum, Ohio
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Thomas Cole
Hunter s Return
1845Oil on canvas
Amon Carter
Museum, Fort
Worth, Texas
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Thomas Cole
Indian at Sunset
1845Oil on canvas
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Thomas Cole
Picnic
1846
Oil on canvas;
The Brooklyn
Museum,NY
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Thomas Cole
Arch of Nero
1846
Oil on canvas;
Newark Museum
New Jersey
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Thomas Cole
Mountain Ford
1846Oil on canvas
Metropolitan
Museum of Art,NY
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Thomas Cole
Catskill Landscape
1846Oil on canvas
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Thomas Cole
Prometheus Bound
1846Oil on canvas
64 x 96 in.
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Thomas Cole
The Cross and the World
Study for
Two Youths Enter
Upon a Polgrimage
One to Cross, Other
1846Oil on canvas
Edwin A. Ulrich
Museum of Art,
Wichita State
University, Kansas
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Thomas Cole
The Cross and the World
Study for
'The Pilgrim of the
Cross at the End
of His Journey'
1846Oil on canvas
National Museum
of American Art,
Washington,
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Thomas Cole
The Cross and the World
Study for
'The Pilgrim of the
World on His
Journehy' c.1846
Oil on canvas;
Albany Institute of
History and Art,NY
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Thomas Cole
The Voyage of Life Youth (mk09)
1842
Oil on canvas,134.3 x 194 cm
Washington,National Gallery of Art
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Thomas Cole
The Giant's Chalice (mk09)
1833
Oil on canvas,49.3 x 41 cm
New York,The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Thomas Cole
Kaaterskill Falls (mk13)
1826.oil on canvas
25 1/4 x 36 3/16''
Wadsworth Atheneum,Hartford,Connecticut Bequest of Daniel Wadsworth
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Thomas Cole
Falls of Kaaterskill (mk13)
1826.Oil on canvas
43 x 36''
The Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation Tuscaloosa,Alabama
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Thomas Cole
Landscape (mk13)
1825
Oil on canvas
23 3/4 x 31 1/2''
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts Bequest of Mrs.Kate Dunwoody
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Thomas Cole
The Clove,Catskills (mk13)
1827 Oil on canvas 25 x 36''
Collection New Britain Museum of American Art,New Britain,Connecticut,Charles F.Smith Fund
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Thomas Cole
Landscape with Figures A Scene from The Last of the Mohicans (mk13)
1826 Oil on penel
26 x 43''
Berry-Hill Galleries New York
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Thomas Cole
Landscape Scene from
1827 oil on canvas
25 x 31''
New York State Historical Association Cooperstown
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Thomas Cole
Scene from The Last of the Mohicans Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund (mk13)
1827 Oil on canvas 25 3/8 x 35 1/16''
Wadsworth Atheneum,Hartford,Connecticut Bequest of Daniel Wadswor
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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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