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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.
An 1837 portrait of Cole by fellow Hudson River School painter Asher Brown Durand. 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.
Thomas Cole, c. 1844–1848. Thomas Cole is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century and was concerned with the realistic and detailed portrayal of nature but with a strong influence from Romanticism. [1]
Oil on canvas. 116.8 x 91.4 cm. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Kindred Spirits (1849) is a painting by Asher Brown Durand, a member of the Hudson River School of painters. It depicts the painter Thomas Cole, who had died in 1848, and his friend, the poet William Cullen Bryant, in the Catskill Mountains.
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 ...
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 ...
The 1840s saw Cole developing larger, monumental canvases. Confident in his work and not limited in subject by commissions, he conceived his larger paintings as exhibition works. Cole submitted Prometheus Bound to the 1847 exhibition at Westminster Hall, London, the third in a series of competitions to select art for the British Houses of ...
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 ...