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Artist: Thomas Cole (1801 - 1848)
Nationality: British
Movement: Hudson River School
Media: Painting
Influences:

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: (60)
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Asher B. Durand - Portrait of Thomas Cole c. 1837 oil on canvas The Berkshire Museum American
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Artist: Thomas Cole Title: Landscape Date: 1825 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.36-1/4 x W.43-3/4
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Thomas Cole Prometheus Bound oil on canvas 1846 - 1847
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Thomas Cole View near the Village of Catskill oil on wood panel 1827
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Thomas Cole Peace at Sunset (Evening in the White Mountains) oil on canvas ca. 1827
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L’Allegro, Thomas Cole (England, Lancashire, Bolton-le-Moor, 1801 - 1848) , 1845, Oil on canvas
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Il Penseroso, Thomas Cole (England, Lancashire, Bolton-le-Moor, 1801 - 1848) , 1845, Oil on canvas
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Incrédulité de saint Thomas (2e quart 17e siècle ; 3e quart 17e siècle) by LA HYRE Laurent de (école)
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Saint Thomas, debout, de face, tenant un livre (2e moitié 15e siècle) by SCHONGAUER Martin (école)
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Thomas Rowlandson The Parody, or Mother Cole and Loader Etching with watercolor 1784
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LA CROIX DANS LA SOLITUDE (1845) by COLE Thomas
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Landscape with Jungfrau, Thomas Cole (England, Lancashire, Bolton-le-Moor, 1801 - 1848) , 1841, Pencil and white gouache on flat, gray-green paper
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Distant View of Mount Etna, Thomas Cole (England, Lancashire, Bolton-le-Moor, 1801 - 1848) , 1842, Pencil and white gouache on flat, gray-green paper
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Thomas Cole - The Return 1837 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Cole - The Departure 1837 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Cole - Landscape n.d. oil on canvas Hickory Museum of Art American
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Thomas Cole - Il Penseroso 1845 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Thomas Cole - L'Allegro 1845 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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THomas Cole - Landscape 1825 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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Castle of Spiez, Lake Thun, Thomas Cole (England, Lancashire, Bolton-le-Moor, 1801 - 1848) , October 19, 1841, Pencil and white gouache on flat, gray-green paper
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Thomas Cole, American (born in England), 1801-1848 Near Conway, New Hampshire 1828 Pen and brown
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Thomas Cole, American (born in England), 1801-1848 White Pine 1821-48 Pen and brown ink, brush
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Landscape with View of Bern, Thomas Cole (England, Lancashire, Bolton-le-Moor, 1801 - 1848) , October 18, 1841, Pencil and white gouache with touches of red chalk on flat, gray-green paper
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Thomas Cole, American (born in England), 1801-1848 Portrait of the Artist"s Wife 1836-48 Graphite, heightened
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Thomas Cole - Genesee Scenery 1846-47 oil on panel Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Thomas Cole - Ruined Tower 1832-36 oil on composition b Albany Institute of History and Art American
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Thomas Cole - Romantic Landscape c. 1826 oil on panel North Carolina Museum of Art American
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Thomas Cole - Lake Winepesaukee 1827 oil on canvas Albany Institute of History and Art American
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Thomas Cole - New England Scenery 1839 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Thomas Cole - View of Florence 1837 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Thomas Cole - From the Top of Kaaterskill Falls 1826 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Thomas Cole - Sunrise in the Catskills 1826 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Cole - The Voyage of Life: Old Age 1842 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Cole, American (born in England), 1801-1848 A view on the river Garigliano, near Naples
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Thomas Gainsborough - The Hon. Mrs. Thomas Graham c. 1775-1777 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow, 1836 Thomas Cole (born England,
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Thomas Sully - Thomas Alston 1826 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Cole - Sketch of Tree Trunks 1825-1840 black ink, pen, wash Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Cole - Pastoral Landscape with Fisherman c. 1826 oil on panel Utah Museum of Fine Arts American
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Thomas Cole - Study for 'A Wild Scene' 1831 oil on canvas Florence Griswold Museum American
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Thomas Cole - Study for "Catskill Creek" c. 1844-1845 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Cole - The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds 1833-1834 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art American
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Thomas Cole - Mill Dam on the Catskill Creek 1841 oil on canvas Currier Museum of Art American
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Thomas Cole - Landscape with Tower in Ruin 1839 oil on cavnas Currier Museum of Art American
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Thomas Cole - The Voyage of Life: Childhood 1842 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Cole - The Voyage of Life: Youth 1842 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Cole - The Voyage of Life: Manhood 1843 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Cole - A Finished Study of a Tree 1844-46 oil on panel Speed Art Museum American
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Thomas Sully The Reverend Thomas Stockton oil on canvas 1843
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Thomas Cole, American (born in England), 1801-1848 View of the Thames 1845 Oil on panel
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Thomas Cole, American (born in England), 1801-1848 Sunset in the Catskills 1841 Oil on canvas
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Thomas Cole - Lake with Dead Trees (Catskill) 1825 oil on canvas Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College American
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Thomas Cole - Landscape Composition: Italian Scenery 1831-32 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Thomas Sully - Thomas Handasyd Perkins 1832 oil on canvas Boston Athenaeum American
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Thomas Cole - American Lake Scene 1844 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Tête du roi de l'époque (19e siècle) by COUTURE Thomas
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Thomas Lupton Thomas Chalmers, D.D, L.L.D, & F.R.S.E. 18th - 19th century
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Thomas Cole - Distant View of Niagara Falls 1830 oil on panel The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Thomas Sully - Mrs. Caleb Newbold and Her Son Thomas 1813 oil on canvas The Columbus Museum
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SAINT JACQUES (milieu 17e siècle) by BARBIERI Giovanni Francesco (école), LE GUERCHIN (dit, école)

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (29)
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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...

Sundance Photographic Workshop: Call for Artists: November Workshop in the Wild West
Camera gear in hand, they are greeted by local "Cowboy Poet" Lannie Scopes, who introduces the area while fellow wrangler JP Carson prepares a hearty, old west-style breakfast. After chow, Lannie will mount his horse and gallop through the streams...

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 ...

Annenberg Space for Photography: L8S ANG3LES: 8 LA-based Master Photographers Plus 3 From LA Times
Located on the former site of the Shubert Theater, the Photography Space is a 10,000 square foot facility. The dynamic exhibition space will feature, along with a traditional print gallery, a state-of-the-art digital presentation system capable o...

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...

Los Angeles Center For Digital Art: Top 40: Juried International Competition
The Artists included in the show are:
Dane Davis
Cole Thompson
Doug Ross
Ekrem Fetic
Joji Okazaki
Helen K. Garber
Jeongmee Yoon
Johann Ludwig Torfason
Chris Orfescu
Rodrigo De Toledo
Edward ...

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...

Gallery at Willesden Green: Nature and Landscape in Art
Linda Duffy explores structures in nature through abstracted systems mimicking the forces at play in natural environments. The drawings exhibited in ŒNature and Landscape in Art‚ evidence the process of their creation and result from following a ...

South Shore Art Center: Photography Now: Juried by Henry Horenstein
Artists include in Photography Now are by:
Markam Keith Adams
Christopher and Amy Allen-Baker
Jeff Amberg
Tony Andrade
Johnny Arguedas
Mindy Baughman
Meg Birnbaum
Garrett Bonetti
Myron Brenton
Lora Brody
Sundance Photographic Workshop: Call for Artists: Bobbi Lane and Tony Sweet at The Sundance
Lighting is crucial to a successful photo and she will cover lighting patterns, quality and lighting ratios. Ms. Lane’s website is www.bobbilane.com. Jazz performer turned world famous nature photographer To...

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 ...

Gabarron Foundation - Carriage House Center for the Arts: I Have a Dream: An Homage to Martin Luther King Jr.
Apart from Theodore W. Kheel, big thinkers and writers participate in this homage: Maya Angelou, Zygmunt Bauman, Owen H. Brooks, Xavier Bru de Sala, Peter N. Carrol, Ernesto Castro, Josep Cuní, David Cortright, Joan Duran, Mohamed ElBaradei, Valen...

Fenimore Art Museum: Being Indian: The 6th Contemporary Iroquois Art Biennial
Peter B. Jones (Onondaga-Seneca) is a renowned potter and sculptor from the Beaver Clan, Onondaga Nation. Jones, who resides on the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation of Indians, studied under Hopi artist Otellie Loloma while attending the...

National Gallery of Art: Stanley William Hayter : From Surrealism to Abstraction
"Hayter has been celebrated as one of the most influential printmakers of the 20th century," said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. "This exhibition recognizes that important contribution but focuses more on Hayter's achievem...

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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WebMuseum: Cole, Thomas
Thomas Cole - Olgas Gallery
Catskill Archive - Thomas Cole
Thomas Cole - Artist Painting - Artist Summary [AskART.com]
C E D A R G R O V E | The Thomas Cole National Historic Site
U.S. Representative Tom Cole, Oklahomas 4th District
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