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1801-1848 Thomas Cole Galleries Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 - February 11, 1848) was a 19th century American artist. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's Hudson River School, as well as his own work, was known for its realistic and detailed portrayal of American landscape and wilderness, which feature themes of romanticism and naturalism. In New York he sold three paintings to George W. Bruen, who financed a summer trip to the Hudson Valley where he visited the Catskill Mountain House and painted the ruins of Fort Putnam. Returning to New York he displayed three landscapes in the window of a bookstore; according to the New York Evening Post, this garnered Cole the attention of John Trumbull, Asher B. Durand, and William Dunlap. Among the paintings was a landscape called "View of Fort Ticonderoga from Gelyna". Trumbull was especially impressed with the work of the young artist and sought him out, bought one of his paintings, and put him into contact with a number of his wealthy friends including Robert Gilmor of Baltimore and Daniel Wadsworth of Hartford, who became important patrons of the artist. Cole was primarily a painter of landscapes, but he also painted allegorical works. The most famous of these are the five-part series, The Course of Empire, now in the collection of the New York Historical Society and the four-part The Voyage of Life. There are two versions of the latter, one at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the other at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York. Cole influenced his artistic peers, especially Asher B. Durand and Frederic Edwin Church, who studied with Cole from 1844 to 1846. Cole spent the years 1829 to 1832 and 1841-1842 abroad, mainly in England and Italy; in Florence he lived with the sculptor Horatio Greenough.

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Thomas Cole 'The Ox Bow' of the Connecticut River near Northampton, Massachusetts oil painting artist


Thomas Cole 'The Ox Bow' of the Connecticut River near Northampton, Massachusetts oil painting artist

'The Ox Bow' of the Connecticut River near Northampton, Massachusetts
Painting ID::  3895
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1836 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Thomas Cole The Hunter's Return oil painting artist


Thomas Cole The Hunter's Return oil painting artist

The Hunter's Return
Painting ID::  3896
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Thomas Cole The Hunter's Return oil painting artist


Thomas Cole The Hunter's Return oil painting artist

The Hunter's Return
Painting ID::  3897
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Notch of White Mountins

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Thomas Cole Notch of White Mountins oil painting artist


Thomas Cole Notch of White Mountins oil painting artist

Notch of White Mountins
Painting ID::  3898
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Thomas Cole Scene from The Last of the Mohicans oil painting artist


Thomas Cole Scene from The Last of the Mohicans oil painting artist

Scene from The Last of the Mohicans
Painting ID::  3899
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