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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 ...
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An oxbow is a U-shaped metal pole (or larger wooden frame) that fits the underside and the sides of the neck of an ox or bullock. A bow pin holds it in place. The term "oxbow" is widely used to refer to a U-shaped meander in a river, sometimes cut off from the modern course of the river that formed it, creating an oxbow lake .
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.
Image Title Year Medium Dimensions Collection Ref. Lake with Dead Trees [note 1] 1825 Oil on canvas 68.6 by 85.7 centimetres (27.0 in × 33.7 in) Allen Memorial Art Museum, Ohio [13] [14] View of Fort Putnam: 1825 Oil on canvas 69.2 by 86.4 centimetres (27.2 in × 34.0 in) Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania [15] [16] Landscape: 1825 Oil ...
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This picture of the Nowitna River in Alaska shows two oxbow lakes – a short one at the bottom of the picture and a longer, more curved one at the middle-right. The picture also shows that a third oxbow lake is probably in the making: the isthmus or bank in the centre of the most prominent meander is very narrow – much narrower than the width of the river; eventually, the two sections of ...
In 2011, Oxbow donated $750,000 to Restore Our Future, Inc., the "SuperPAC" supporting Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. [10] In October 2016, Charles Middleton brought an IRS whistleblower complaint against Oxbow Carbon LLC for avoidance of taxes involving profits from selling petroleum coke, a residue from oil refining. [11] [12]