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View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, commonly known as The Oxbow, is a seminal American landscape painting by Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School. The 1836 painting depicts a Romantic panorama of the Connecticut River Valley just after a thunderstorm. It has been interpreted as a confrontation ...
Sketch for The Oxbow: 1836 Oil and pencil on composition board 14 by 23.8 centimetres (5.5 in × 9.4 in) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York [137] Study for The Voyage of Life: Manhood: c. 1837 – c. 1839: Oil on wooden panel 30.5 by 34.6 centimetres (12.0 in × 13.6 in) Albany Institute of History & Art, New York [138]
The Oxbow (The Connecticut River near Northampton) (1836) The Course of Empire (1833–1836), this animated image shows all five paintings in the series as separate frames. Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 – February 11, 1848) was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement.
Thomas Cole (1801–1848), The Oxbow, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (1836), Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism.
American artist who began painting just as the Hudson River School was winding down. He studied at the National Academy of Design under Bierstadt and de Haas, and maintained studios in Clifton Park, New York, and New York City, where he painted in oils and watercolors. He completed more than 130 paintings, including several works in black and ...
The Course of Empire is a series of five paintings created by the English-born American painter Thomas Cole between 1833 and 1836, and now in the collection of the New-York Historical Society. The series depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city, situated on the lower end of a river valley, near its meeting with a bay of the sea.
The Oxbow, also known as the Ox-Bow, is an extension of the Connecticut River located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was famously depicted in Thomas Cole 's 1836 painting View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow .
Each painting places the voyager and his guardian angel in a different part of the river and surrounding wilderness. Art critics have ascribed a variety of potential inspirations to the work, the most obvious being the Bible's "river of life" imagery and John Bunyan 's The Pilgrim's Progress , along with a variety of 19th-century poems, essays ...