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Artist: Thomas Cole (1801 - 1848)
Nationality: English
Movement: Hudson River School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Thomas Cole was born in Lancashire, England and began his career as an apprentice to and engraver of textile designs. In 1818, he moved his family to the United States, and worked in Philadelphia as an engraver. He then settled in Steubenville, Ohio and began to study art under an unknown mentor. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and moved to New York in 1825. His paintings of familiar American landscapes such as the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains became very well known and popular. After a visit to Europe from 1829 to 1832, Cole settled in New York and began a large series of paintings that depicted the rise and fall of civilization.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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New York State Museum: The Course of Empire:Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School Landscape Tradition
Thomas Cole, long considered the founder of the Hudson River School and the father of 19th century American landscape as a whole, takes center stage in this exhibition with his seminal five-painting series, The Course of Empire. Commissioned by th...
Hudson River Museum: Open Air Sketching: Ninteenth-Century American Landscape Drawing in the Albany Institute of History and Art
Gradually, these drawings were appreciated for their own artistic merit and even produced as finished pieces or presentation drawings. In an era before photography was commonplace, artists also used drawing as a means of rec...
Kunsthaus Bregenz: Jenny Holzer: Truth Before Power
Almost all texts used by Holzer are US government documents – primarily official communications, reports, and letters made available to the public under the landmark legislation, the “Freedom of Information Act.” Many texts were originally “class...
Butler Institute of American Art: WILLIAM BAZIOTES: THE POETIC SPIRIT
The exhibition, organized by the Butler Institute in association with Joseph Helman, includes twenty six works and is accompanied by a scholarly catalogue with entries by the artist’s wid...
CAC Art Center (New Orleans): The Culture of Queer: A Tribute to J.B. Harter
In addition, selections from the permanent collection of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, that also collected Harter‚s work, will include seldom seen „queer art‰ works by Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jack Pierson, Arthur Tress, Bruce of ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Summer Selections: American Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
The origins of the Metropolitan's collection of American works on paper can be traced to the 1880s—the decade after the Museum was founded. Now numbering more than 1,500 ...
Columbia Museum of Art: Burn: Artists Play with Fire
Technique and theme merge in these dramatic works as artists explore such issues as cultural identity, environmental fragility and personal loss. Some of the featured artists include L.C. Armstrong, Chris Burden, John Cage, Willie Cole, Kathleen K...
Frye Art Museum: Hudson River Paintings from the Hersen Collection
The richly painted landscapes reflect a time when the American landscape was relatively unmarred by development. At first glance, the paintings seem simply to represent beauty, repose, and rest. At a deeper level, however, the paintings ev...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: American Drawings and Watercolors: Highlights from the Collection, 1710-1890
The exhibition will offer a rare opportunity to see many of the Museum's American works on paper, which – due to their fragile nature and sensitivity to light – are displayed only periodically. The often informal character or preparatory function ...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Nails, Weaves and Naturals: Black British Hairstyles and Nail Art
Braiding, cornrows, twists, relaxed hair, afros, skiffles, conks, dreds, perms, dreadlocks, double twists, crimped locs, curly-perm, bantu knots, Nubian knots waves, weave-ons, bal heads, afro puffs, threading, GI-cut, tramlines, African platts, f...
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN: 175th Open Annual Exhibition
Distinguished juries in each medium are elected by the membership of the Academy. Juries of selection are as follows: Painting: Pat Adams, Will Barnet, Harvey Dinnerstein, Lois Dodd, Yvonne Jacquette, Paul Resika, and Joseph Solman; Sculpture: Ze...
Transition: Room: Delaine Le Bas
Delaine’s Romany Gypsy heritage is inherent within her work, which as a contemporary artist has been something of a double-edged sword, both fuelling her and holding her back. She is perceived by the art world as an outsider artist – naïve and fol...
Columbia Museum of Art: Intimate Expressions: Two Centuries of American Drawings
Among the many artists represented in the exhibition are Milton Avery, George Bellows, Charles Burchfield, Paul Cadmus, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Cole, John Singleton Copley, Philip Pearlstein and Benjamin West. Through drawings, the viewer ca...
Fotogalerie Objektief: Incarceration: Corrie McCluskey Explores Place as a Cultural Artifact
Several of McCluskey's meticulously printed, selenium-toned gelatin silver prints have previously been shown in group exhibitions, including No Exit: Images of Imprisonment, curated by Diana Gaston and Frank Yamrus at SF Camerawork in San Francisc...
National Gallery of Art: FROM REMBRANDT TO RUBENS AND MONET TO MATISSE, EXHIBITION PRESENTS ACQUISITIONS OF THE LAST DECADE AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY
The exhibition is made possible by Verizon Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Verizon Communications. The Foundation is also funding the development of a ...
Van Gogh Museum: American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920

Although the artists were familiar with and reacted to European art, they simultaneously developed their own individual style. To shed light on the various artistic currents the exhibition is organized around themes such as American Icons, Impress...
International Fine Print Dealers Association: Twelfth Annual New York Print Fair
Since 1991, The International Fine Print Dealers Association has sponsored The Print Fair in New York City, the world's largest and most celebrated annual exhibition and sale of fine prints. The Print Fair is held at the Armory on Park Avenue and ...
Portland Museum of Art: Charles Codman: Retrospective
Most likely a native of Boston, Codman began his career as an apprentice to ornamental painter John Ritto Pennimans. He continued his work in decorative painting after relocating to Portland in 1822, enjoying a brisk trade painting portraits, sign...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Degas to Picasso: Painters, Sculptors and the Camera
Dating from roughly 1885 to 1915, the 364 paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs on view demonstrate the pervasive and diverse role of photography in the work and working processes of these significant artists. The works...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Out of the Ordinary: The Architecture and Design of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates
Venturi Scott Brown and Associates (VSBA) is known for combining design elements in unexpected ways-an approach that has spurred some to include Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown among the founders of architectural Post modernism. Though t...

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C E D A R G R O V E | The Thomas Cole National Historic Site
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