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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 ...
He was known for his romantic landscape and history paintings. Influenced by European painters, but with a strong American sensibility, [3] he was prolific throughout his career and worked primarily with oil on canvas. His paintings are typically allegoric and often depict small figures or structures set against moody and evocative natural ...
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.
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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 ...
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]
The Oxbow: After Church, after Cole, Flooded (Flooded River for the Matriarchs E. & A. Mongan), Green Light, 2000.Metropolitan Museum of Art.. Stephen W. Hannock (born March 31, 1951) is an American painter known for his atmospheric landscapes––compositions of flooded rivers, nocturnes and large vistas––which often incorporate text inscriptions that relate to family, friends or events ...