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Thomas Cole's Journey
Thomas Cole (1801–1848) is celebrated as the greatest American landscape artist of his generation. Though previous scholarship has emphasized the American aspects of his formation and identity, never before has the British-born artist been presented as an international figure, in direct dialogue with the major landscape painters of the age. Thomas Cole’s Journey emphasizes the artist’s travels in England and Italy from 1829 to 1832 and his crucial interactions with such painters as Turner and Constable. For the first time, it explores the artist’s most renowned paintings, The Oxbow (1836) and The Course of Empire cycle (1834–36), as the culmination of his European experiences and o...
Thomas Cole
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Thomas Cole
Each of these handsome volumes contains 32 large color plates reproduced with superb fidelity on special paper. The informative text and detailed captions will provide inspiration and fresh insight for all who admire great painting.Considered the founder of the Hudson River School, Cole infused his dramatic portrayals of the American landscape with an aura of grandeur, sublimity, and moral and religious meaning.
Thomas Cole. A Description of his Life and his Series of Paintings "The Course of Empire" and "The Voyage of Life"
Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: This paper describes the life and work of Thomas Cole. After a description of Cole's biography, the second chapter deals with two series of paintings: "The Course of Empire" and "The Voyage of Life". Finally, the Hudson River School will be described.
The Life And Works of Thomas Cole
The Life And Works of Thomas Cole is a collection of the writings of Thomas Cole (1801–1848), leader of the Hudson River School of painters, presented as a biography with narrative and commentary by his pastor and intimate friend, Louis Legrand Noble. Cole's poetry, essays, and descriptions are as vividly pictorial as his paintings, offering an illuminating insight into the ideas and feelings of this significant figure in the history of American art.-print ed.
Hudson River School
A breathtaking selection of works from the largest and finest collection of Hudson River paintings in the world Hudson River School paintings are among America's most admired and well-loved artworks. Such artists as Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and Albert Bierstadt left a powerful legacy to American art, embodying in their epic works the reverence for nature and the national idealism that prevailed during the middle of the nineteenth century. This book features fifty-seven major Hudson River School paintings from the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, recognized as the most extensive and finest in the world. Gorgeously and amply illustrated, the book includes paintings by all the major figures of the Hudson River School. Each work is beautifully reproduced in full color and is accompanied by a concise description of its significance and historical background. The book also includes artists' biographies and a brief introduction to American nineteenth-century landscape painting and the Wadsworth Atheneum's unique role in collecting Hudson River pictures.
Albany Institute of History & Art
Beautifully illustrated introduction and overview to the collections of the Albany Institute of History and Art
The Course of Empire
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Sanctified Landscape
The Hudson River Valley was the first iconic American landscape. Beginning as early as the 1820s, artists and writers found new ways of thinking about the human relationship with the natural world along the Hudson. Here, amid the most dramatic river and mountain scenery in the eastern United States, Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper created a distinctly American literature, grounded in folklore and history, that contributed to the emergence of a sense of place in the valley. Painters, led by Thomas Cole, founded the Hudson River School, widely recognized as the first truly national style of art. As the century advanced and as landscape and history became increasingly intertwined in...
