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Thomas Cole

[English-born American Hudson River School Painter, 1801-1848]

• Relationships: Coles' only student was Frederic Edwin Church, one of the leaders of the second generation of the Hudson River School.
• Subject matter:  Specializes in Landscapes.
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Original works by Thomas Cole available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database   NEW!
New England Scenery

Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Italian Landscape, 1839

Cedar Grove | Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, New York

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
The Fountain of Vaucluse, 1841

Thomas Cole at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Peace at Sunset (Evening in the White Mountains), ca.1827
View near the Village of Catskill, 1827
Prometheus Bound, 1846-47

Louvre Museum La Fayette Database of American Art, Paris   NEW!

Thomas Cole at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
8 works by Thomas Cole online

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
Landscape, 1825

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Watercolor collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Drawings collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

Thomas Cole at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
11 works by Thomas Cole

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
The Mill, Sunset, 1844 (Zoom)

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Romantic Landscape, ca.1826

Albany Institute of History and Art, New York
Lake WinnepesaukeeRuined Tower

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Lake with Dead Trees (Catskill)

Amon Carter Museum, Texas
The Hunter's Return

Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Storm King of the Hudson, ca.1825-27

Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah

Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
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Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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View Across Frenchman's Bay from Mt. Desert Island, After a Squall

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm
View of Florence


Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
3 works online

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire   NEW!
2 works online

Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Cattle and Distant Mountain, 1822

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Cabin in the Woods, North Conway, NH

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

Thomas Cole in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
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Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Massachusetts
Daniel Boone at His Cabin at Great Osage Lake, ca.1826

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Genesee Scenery
Landscape Composition: Italian Scenery


Mint Museum of Art, North Carolina
Untitled (American Lake Scene)

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
A View of the Hudson, ca.1835

Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Massachusetts
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm

New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
The Clove

New-York Historical Society
Many paintings illustrated

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Landscape, the Seat of Mr. Featherstonhaugh in the Distance

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York
Sunset on the Arno, 1837

Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Catskill Mountains Landscape

Thomas Cole at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Landscape with Figures: A Scene from 'The Last of the Mohicans', 1826

The Newark Museum, New Jersey   NEW!
The Arch of Nero, 1846

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
The Architect's Dream
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Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
Pastoral Landscape with Fishermen

Virtual Museum of Canada
The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge, 1829

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
The Last of the Mohicans, Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
View on the Arno, near Florence, 1837

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Thomas Cole in the Art Renewal Center

Thomas Cole in the Artchive  

Thomas Cole at CGFA  

Web Gallery of Art  

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Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

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Brian Yoder's Art Gallery and Critic's Corner

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

Olga's Gallery

The Athenaeum  
106 works online by Cole

University of Michigan Fine Art Slides
View Near Volterra, Italy

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Other Web Sites:
The Western hero: Visions and Revisions

White Mountain Art and Artists

Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Thomas Cole
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Time Magazine
"America's Prodigy", 1994 article by Robert Hughes

  
 
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