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Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 – February 11, 1848) 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.
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.
Tom Christopher wrote that “[Thomas] Cole’s greatest artistic asset proved to be his untutored eye.” [3] Cole emigrated to America with his family in the spring of 1819 at the age of eighteen. [4] As a child, his surroundings were of Lancashire, England, an area known to be an epicenter of Britain’s primarily industrial region. Because ...
It depicts the painter Thomas Cole, who had died in 1848, and his friend, the poet William Cullen Bryant, in the Catskill Mountains. The landscape painting, which combines geographical features in Kaaterskill Clove and a minuscule depiction of Kaaterskill Falls, is not a literal depiction of American geography. Rather, it is an idealized memory ...
Portrait of Thomas Cole by Asher B. Durand, 1837. 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 ...
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site, also known as Cedar Grove, is a National Historic Landmark that includes the home and the studio of painter Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of American painting. It is located at 218 Spring Street, Catskill, NY, United States. The site provided Thomas Cole with a residence and studio from ...
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Tom Christopher wrote that "[Thomas] Cole’s greatest artistic asset proved to be his untutored eye." [3] Cole emigrated to America with his family in the spring of 1819 at the age of eighteen. [4] As a child, his surroundings were of Lancashire, England, an area known to be an epicenter of Britain’s primarily industrial region. Because of ...