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Thomas Cole
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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Arch of Nero (mk13)
1846 Oil on canvas
60 x 48''
Collection the Newark Museum Newark,New Jersey,
Purchase 1957
Sophronia Anderson Bequest Fund
Painting ID:: 22133
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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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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
Painting ID:: 22134
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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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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
Painting ID:: 22135
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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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Unfinished Landscape (The Cross at Sunset) (mk13)
c 1847.Oil on canvas
32 x 48 1/2''
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection,Lugano,Switzerland
Painting ID:: 22136
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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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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
Painting ID:: 22137
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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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Thomas_Cole
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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