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Cole called the series an "Allegory of Human Life" and wrote detailed descriptions of the paintings, conveying how each depicts a different stage of the man's life and spiritual development. [5] The voyager has also been seen as a personification of America, and the series as a warning against westward expansion and industrialization.
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, New York [140] Figure Study for The Voyage of Life: Manhood: c. 1839 – c. 1840: Oil on diagonal weave canvas 26.7 by 20.5 centimetres (10.5 in × 8.1 in) Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, New York [141] Compositional Study for The Voyage of Life: Manhood: c. 1840: Oil on academy board
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.
A highlight of the permanent collection is the first of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's famous series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life: The second set is at the National Gallery Washington, DC. In 2023, as part of a rebranding effort facilitated by a Brooklyn-based design agency, the museum rebranded itself simply "Munson".
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Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the ...
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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 ...