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Thomas Cole


Born
in Bolton le Moors, Lancashire, England, The United Kingdom
February 01, 1801

Died
February 11, 1848


Thomas Cole was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history paintings. Influenced by European painters, but with a strong American sensibility, he was prolific throughout his career and worked primarily with oil on canvas. His paintings are typically allegoric and often depict small figures or structures set against moody and evocative natural landscapes. They are usually escapist, framing the New World as a natural eden contrasting with the smog-filled cityscapes of Industrial Revolution-era Britain, in which he grew up. His works, often seen as conservative, criticize ...more

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Thomas Cole's Poetry: The C...

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Running A Tightrope: A Year...

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Lecture on Art

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Jokes: 1001 Jokes for Kids ...

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The Origins of Rhetoric in ...

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Aloes of Uganda - a field g...

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Democritus and the Sources ...

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Myth & Magic: Symbols of Tr...

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Thomas Cole: Drawn to Nature

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God Who?

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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.”
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“Though American scenery is destitute of many of those circumstances that give value to the European, still it has features, and glorious ones, unknown to Europe...the most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wildness”
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“We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out of the garden is our own ignorance and folly.”
Thomas Cole, essai sur le décor naturel américain