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Thomas Cole (1 February 1801 – 11 February 1848) was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. [1] [2] Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history paintings.
Thomas Cole (born February 1, 1801, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, England—died February 11, 1848, Catskill, New York, U.S.) was an American Romantic landscape painter who was a founder of the Hudson River school.
Thomas Cole, America's leading landscape painter during the first half of the nineteenth century, was born on February 1, 1801 in Bolton-le-Moor, England. Before emigrating with his family to the United States in 1818, he served as an engraver's assistant and as an apprentice to a designer of calico prints.
The paintings of Thomas Cole, like the writings of his contemporary Ralph Waldo Emerson, stand as monuments to the dreams and anxieties of the fledgling American nation during the mid-19th century; and they are also euphoric celebrations of its natural landscapes.
Thomas Cole inspired the generation of American landscape painters that came to be known as the Hudson River School.
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site preserves and interprets the original home and studios of the artist and early environmentalist Thomas Cole (1801-1848). Cole founded the influential art movement of the United States, now known as the Hudson River School of landscape painting.
Thomas Cole’s four-part series The Voyage of Life (1842) traces a pilgrim’s journey through sublime landscapes along the "River of Life” from childhood to old age.
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site preserves and interprets the original home and studios of the artist and early environmentalist Thomas Cole (1801-1848). Cole founded the influential art movement of the United States, now known as the Hudson River School of landscape painting.
Thomas Cole was the first of the Hudson River School of painters, often characterized as being the first native American school of painting. Though devoted to the study of nature, and usually thought of as a landscape artist, moralistic and religious themes were central to Cole's paintings.
Thomas Cole was an Anglo-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...
