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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 ...
Thomas Cole was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history paintings.
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.
He exhibited at the National Academy from 1839 to 1873 and at the American Art-Union in 1847. He was deeply influenced by the dramatic work of Thomas Cole and painted in a romantic style clearly tied to Cole's sublime aesthetic. He was one of the founders of the Art League of New York. William Bliss Baker: More images: 27 November 1859 20 ...
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Connecticut River Oxbow from space, 2017 USGS topographic map of the Oxbow. 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. [1]
Asher Durand, Kindred Spirits, 1849 Durand's main interest changed from engraving to oil painting about 1830 with the encouragement of his patron, Luman Reed.In 1837, he accompanied his friend Thomas Cole on a sketching expedition to Schroon Lake in the Adirondacks Mountains, and soon after he began to concentrate on landscape painting.