Thomas Cole · 1840
Anglo-American · 1801–1848
Thomas Cole was an Anglo-American artist who founded the Hudson River School art movement. He painted romantic landscapes and history paintings. Influenced by European painters, but with a strong American sensibility, he was prolific throughout his career and worked primarily with oil on canvas.
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The Architect's Dream
Thomas Cole · 1840
Toledo Museum of Art
Expulsion: Moon and Firelight
Thomas Cole · 1828
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Cross at Sunset
Thomas Cole · 1848
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Tornado in an American Forest
Thomas Cole
National Gallery of Art
The Voyage of Life: Childhood
Thomas Cole
National Gallery of Art
The Voyage of Life: Manhood
Thomas Cole
National Gallery of Art
View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm
Thomas Cole
The Cleveland Museum of Art
6 of Thomas Cole's works, and what makes each one worth a look.
The Architect's Dream
Thomas Cole · 1840
Toledo Museum of Art
The Architect's Dream is an 1840 oil painting created by Thomas Cole for New York architect Ithiel Town. Cole incorporated pieces of architecture from Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Gothic styles in various different parts of the painting, having dabbled in architecture previously. Cole finished the painting in only five weeks and showed it in the National Academy of Design annual exhibition that year.
Cross at Sunset
Thomas Cole · 1848
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Cross at Sunset is an oil on canvas painting by Thomas Cole. Believed to have been created around 1848, it was left unfinished due to his premature death that year. Tom Christopher wrote that “ Cole’s greatest artistic asset proved to be his untutored eye.” Cole emigrated to America with his family in the spring of 1819 at the age of eighteen.
Tornado in an American Forest
Thomas Cole
National Gallery of Art
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The Voyage of Life: Childhood
Thomas Cole
National Gallery of Art
The Voyage of Life is a series of four paintings created by the American artist Thomas Cole in 1840 and reproduced with minor alterations in 1842, representing an allegory of the four stages of human life. The paintings, Childhood, Youth, Manhood, and Old Age, depict a voyager who travels in a boat on a river through the mid-19th-century American wilderness. In each painting the voyager rides the boat on the River of Life accompanied by a guardian angel.
The Voyage of Life: Manhood
Thomas Cole
National Gallery of Art
The Voyage of Life is a series of four paintings created by the American artist Thomas Cole in 1840 and reproduced with minor alterations in 1842, representing an allegory of the four stages of human life. The paintings, Childhood, Youth, Manhood, and Old Age, depict a voyager who travels in a boat on a river through the mid-19th-century American wilderness. In each painting the voyager rides the boat on the River of Life accompanied by a guardian angel.
View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm
Thomas Cole
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Thomas Cole was an American artist who founded the Hudson River School art movement. Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history paintings.
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