Thomas Cole, “The Titian’s Goblet” (1833)
In the middle of the nineteenth century painters such as Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886), Thomas Cole (1801-1848) and Fredric Edwin Church (1826-1900) popularized landscapes that emphasized the romantic, sublime, and fantastic aspects of New York’s Hudson River Valley and other areas of wilderness. Many of the same aesthetics are played out in the stories of Washington Irving and embody a view of nature that is harmonious with that of transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Below are a couple a Cole’s paintings. For further reading follow this link to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s online exhibit of Hudson River School Artists in its collection.
Thomas Cole, “The Oxbow View” (1836)
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