Art: Thomas Cole

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Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 – February 11, 1848) was an English-born American painter known for his landscape and history paintings. One of the major 19th-century American painters, he is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's work is known for its romantic portrayal of the American wilderness.

Cole emigrated with his family to the United States in 1818, settling in Steubenville, Ohio. At the age of 22, Cole moved to Philadelphia and later, in 1825, to Catskill, New York, where he lived with his wife and children until 1848.Cole found work early on as an engraver. He was largely self-taught as a painter, relying on books and by studying the work of other artists. In 1822, Cole started working as a portrait painter and later on, gradually shifted his focus to landscape.

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1. Sunrise in the Catskills

Medium: oil on canvas

Dated: 1826

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2. On the Road from Conway

Medium: pen and black ink over graphite on wove paper

Dated: 1827/1828

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3. The Good Shepherd

Medium: graphite and pen and ink with tan and gray wash, heightened with white, on laid paper

Dated: 1847

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4. The Voyage of Life: Old Age

Medium: oil on canvas

Dated: 1842

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5. The Voyage of Life: Manhood

Medium: oil on canvas

Dated: 1842

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6. The Return

Medium: oil on canvas

Dated: 1837

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7. Italian Coast Scene with Ruined Tower

Medium: oil on canvas

Dated: 1838

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8. Narcissus 

Medium: pen and black ink on wove paper

Dated: 1828

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9. Mountain Landscape

Medium: graphite on wove paper

Dated: 1828

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10. Temples of Juno, Lucina, and Concordia - Agrigentum, Sicily

Medium: graphite with white gouache on brown wove paper

Dated: 1842

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11. The Voyage of Life: Childhood

Medium: oil on canvas

Dated: 1842

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12. Temple of Juno, Agrigentum

Medium: graphite and white chalk on gray laid paper

Dated: 1842

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13. The Bridge of Fear

Medium: graphite and black crayon with gray wash on wove paper

Dated: ?

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14. Study for "Catskill Creek"

Medium: oil on wood

Dated: 1844/1845

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15. The Departure

Medium: oil on canvas

Dated: 1837

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“Those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature have never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep-toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them the consequent associations are of God the Creator, they are His undefiled works; and the mind is cast into contemplation of eternal things.” ― Thomas Cole

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