List of paintings by Thomas Cole
Appearance
Thomas Cole was a 19th-century American artist widely regarded as a founder of the Hudson River School, and known for his romantic landscape and history paintings. Influenced by European painters, but with a strong American sensibility,[1] he was prolific throughout his career and worked primarily with oil. His works are typically allegoric and often show small figures set against moody and evocative wilderness landscapes that served as escapism from the smog-filled cityscapes of industrial revolution-era Britain in which he grew up.[2]
His works are held across a broad variety of major and national museums; this list consists only of paintings documented in public collections. The medium, if not oil on canvas, is noted.
Image | Title | Year | Height (cm) | Width (cm) | Medium/notes | Collection | Accession No. |
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Lake with Dead Trees (Catskill) | 1825 | 68.6 | 85.7 | Oil on canvas museum entry |
Allen Memorial Art Museum | 1904.1183 |
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Landscape | 1825 | 60.3 | 80.0 | Oil on canvas museum entry |
Minneapolis Institute of Art | 15.299 |
The Clove, Catskills | c. 1826 | 64.1 | 89.2 | museum entry | New Britain Museum of American Art | 1945.22 | |
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Kaaterskill Falls | 1826 | Wadsworth Atheneum | ||||
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Sunrise in the Catskills | 1826 | 64.8 | 90.1 | Oil on canvas museum entry |
National Gallery of Art | 1989.24.1 |
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Landscape, the Seat of Mr. Featherstonhaugh in the Distance | 1826 | 83.8 | 121.9 | Oil on canvas museum entry |
Philadelphia Museum of Art | 2004-115-4 |
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The Tempest | 1826 | museum entry | High Museum of Art | 1987.100 | ||
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The Last of the Mohicans: The Death of Cora | c. 1827 | museum entry | University of Pennsylvania Art Collection | 0000.0275 | ||
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Scene from "The Last of the Mohicans," Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund | 1827 | 64.5 | 89.1 | Wadsworth Atheneum | 1868.3 | |
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View of the Round-Top in the Catskill Mountains | 1827 | 47.31 | 64.45 | museum entry | Museum of Fine Arts Boston | 47.1200 |
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View in the White Mountains | 1827 | 64.5 | 89.4 | museum search | Wadsworth Atheneum | 1848.17 |
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Autumn in the Catskills | 1827 | Arnot Art Museum | ||||
View near the Village of Catskill | 1827 | 62.2 | 88.9 | Oil on panel. museum entry | Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | 1993.35.7 | |
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Landscape Composition: Saint John in the Wilderness | 1827 | 91.4 | 73.5 | museum entry | Wadsworth Atheneum | |
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Peace at Sunset (Evening in the White Mountains) | 1827 | 68.9 | 81.9 | museum entry | Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | 46.13 |
Lake Winnepesaukee | 1827/28 | 64.8 | 87 | museum entry | Albany Institute of History & Art | 1949.1.4 | |
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Expulsion: Moon and Firelight | c. 1828 | 91.4 | 122 | museum entry | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum | 95 (1980.14) |
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Expulsion from the Garden of Eden | 1828 | 100.96 | 138.43 | museum entry | Museum of Fine Arts Boston | 47.1188 |
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Landscape (Landscape with Tree Trunks) | 1828 | 66.4 | 81.9 | museum entry | Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art | |
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The Garden of Eden | 1828 | 38.5 | 52.75 | museum entry | Amon Carter Museum of American Art | 1990.10 |
View on Lake Winnipiseogee | 1828 | Oil on panel | Wadsworth Atheneum | ||||
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The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge | 1829 | 90.8 | 121.3 | museum entry | Smithsonian American Art Museum | 1983.40 |
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Catskill Scenery | 1830s | museum entry | Saint Louis Art Museum | 105:1970 | ||
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Distant View of Niagara Falls | 1830 | 47.9 | 60.6 | Oil on panel museum entry |
Art Institute of Chicago | 1946.396 |
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A Wild Scene | 1831–1832 | 129.7 | 194.5 | museum collection search | Baltimore Museum of Art | |
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Study for The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds | 1831 | 17.8 | 22.2 | museum entry | Chrysler Museum of Art | 86.193 |
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Tornado in an American Forest | 1831 | museum entry | National Gallery of Art | 2014.136.117 | ||
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Aqueduct near Rome | 1832 | 44.5 | 67.3 | Oil on canvas museum entry |
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum | WU 1987.4 |
The Dead Abel | 1832 | 17 | 28.5 | Oil on panel. museum entry | Albany Institute of History & Art | 1943.86 | |
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Ruined Tower (Mediterranean Coast Scene with Tower) | 1832–1836 | 68 | 86.4 | Oil on composition board museum entry |
Albany Institute of History & Art | 1965.1 |
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Ruined Castle and River | c. 1832 | 20.2 | 31.7 | museum entry | Brooklyn Museum | 21.107 |
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The Cascatelli, Tivoli, Looking Towards Rome | c. 1832 | 85.73 | 113.03 | museum entry | Columbus Museum of Art | 1991.013.001 |
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A View near Tivoli (Morning) | 1832 | 37.5 | 58.7 | museum entry | Metropolitan Museum of Art | 03.27 |
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Salvator Rosa Sketching Banditti | 1832–1840 | 17.78 | 24.13 | Oil on panel museum entry |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston | 62.268 |
The Titan's Goblet | 1833 | 49.2 | 41 | museum entry | Metropolitan Museum of Art | 04.29.2 | |
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Scene from Byron’s “Manfred” | 1833 | museum entry | Yale University Art Gallery | 1968.102 | ||
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The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds | 1834 | 101.5 | 185.5 | museum entry | Chrysler Museum of Art | 80.30 |
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Clouds | c. 1838 | 22.2 | 27.6 | museum entry | Metropolitan Museum of Art | 2013.201 |
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Sketch for View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow) | 1836 | 14 | 23.8 | museum entry | Metropolitan Museum of Art | 2014.59 |
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The Oxbow | 1836 | 130.8 | 193 | museum entry | Metropolitan Museum of Art | 08.228 |
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The Course of Empire: The Savage State | 1836 | 99.7 | 160.7 | museum entry | New-York Historical Society | 1858.1 |
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The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State | c. 1834 | 99.7 | 160.7 | museum entry | New-York Historical Society | 1858.2 |
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The Course of Empire: Consummation | 1836 | 130.2 | 193 | museum entry | New-York Historical Society | 1858.3 |
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The Course of Empire: Destruction | 1836 | museum entry | New-York Historical Society | 1858.4 | ||
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The Course of Empire: Desolation | 1836 | 99.7 | 160.7 | museum entry | New-York Historical Society | 1858.5 |
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View of Florence from San Miniato | 1837 | museum entry | Cleveland Museum of Art | 1961.39 | ||
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View on the Catskill Early Autumn | 1837 | museum entry | Metropolitan Museum of Art | 95.13.3 | ||
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The Departure | 1837 | museum entry | National Gallery of Art | 2014.79.13 | ||
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The Return | 1837 | museum entry | National Gallery of Art | 2014.79.12 | ||
View on the Arno, near Florence | 1837 | 84.5 | 135.5 | museum search | Worcester Art Museum | 1991.179 | |
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The Vesper Hymn | c. 1838 | 53.7 | 45.4 | museum entry | Yale University Art Gallery | 1949.41 |
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Romantic Landscape with Ruined Tower | 1838 | 86.4 | 116.8 | museum entry | National Gallery of Art | 1993.55.1 |
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The Present | 1838 | museum entry | Mead Art Museum | AC 1951.190 | ||
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The Past | 1838 | museum entry | Mead Art Museum | AC 1951.189 | ||
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Dream of Arcadia | 1838 | 98.1 | 159.4 | museum entry | Denver Art Museum | 1954.71 |
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North Mountain and Catskill Creek | 1838 | museum entry | Yale University Art Gallery | 1981.56 | ||
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The Notch of the White Mountains | 1839 | 102 | 155.8 | museum entry | National Gallery of Art | 1967.8.1 |
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Portage Falls on the Genesee | 1839 | Seward House Historic Museum | ||||
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New England Scenery | 1839 | 57.1 | 46.7 | museum entry | Art Institute of Chicago | 1900.558 |
Gardens of the Van Rensselaer Manor House | 1840 | 61 | 91 | museum entry | Albany Institute of History & Art | 1930.7.1 | |
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The Architect's Dream | 1840 | museum entry | Toledo Museum of Art | 1949.162 | ||
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The Fountain of Vaucluse | 1841 | museum entry | Dallas Museum of Art | 1992.14 | ||
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Sunset in the Catskills | 1841 | 57.15 | 76.2 | museum entry | Museum of Fine Arts Boston | 63.271 |
The Return from the Tournament | 1841 | 100.97 | 153.67 | museum entry | National Gallery of Art | 2014.136.170 | |
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The Temple of Segesta with the Artist Sketching | c. 1842 | 49.85 | 76.52 | museum entry | Museum of Fine Arts Boston | 47.1198 |
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View of Sicily | 1842-45 | 18.6 | 25.7 | museum entry | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | 2011.22 |
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The Voyage of Life: Childhood | 1842 | 134.3 | 195.3 | museum entry | National Gallery of Art | 1971.16.1 |
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The Voyage of Life: Youth | 1842 | 134.3 | 194.9 | museum entry | National Gallery of Art | 1971.16.2 |
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The Voyage of Life: Manhood | 1842 | 134.3 | 202.6 | museum entry | National Gallery of Art | 1971.16.3 |
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The Voyage of Life: Old Age | 1842 | 133.4 | 196.2 | museum entry | National Gallery of Art | 1971.16.4 |
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River in the Catskills | 1843 | 69.85 | 102.55 | museum entry | Museum of Fine Arts Boston | 47.1201 |
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Angels Ministering to Christ in the Wilderness | 1843 | 189.2 | 152.4 | Oil on linen | Worcester Art Museum | 1970.118 |
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Roman Campagna | 1843 | Wadsworth Atheneum | ||||
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Mount Etna from Taormina | 1843 | 200 | 306 | museum search | Wadsworth Atheneum | 1844.6 |
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An Italian Autumn | 1844 | 81.6 | 123.19 | museum entry | Museum of Fine Arts Boston | 1989.229 |
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Study for "Catskill Creek" | 1844/1845 | 30.5 | 45.7 | Oil on panel museum entry |
National Gallery of Art | 1998.67.1 |
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A View of the Two Lakes and Mountain House, Catskill Mountains, Morning | 1844 | 91 | 136.9 | museum entry | Brooklyn Museum | 52.16 |
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American Lake Scene | 1844 | 46.4 | 62.2 | museum entry | Detroit Institute of Arts | |
The Mill, Sunset | 1844 | 66.36 | 91.6 | museum entry | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art | 2004.29 | |
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View of the Thames | 1845 | 33.97 | 51.43 | museum entry | Museum of Fine Arts Boston | 63.270 |
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Il Penseroso | 1845 | museum entry | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | M.80.115 | ||
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The Cross in the Wilderness | 1845 | museum entry | Department of Paintings of the Louvre | RF 1975-9 | ||
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View across Frenchman's Bay from Mt. Desert Island, after a Squall | 1845 | 97.3 | 159 | museum entry | Cincinnati Art Museum | 1925.569 |
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L'Allegro | 1845 | 81.6 | 121.92 | museum entry | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | M.74.53 |
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Study for The Cross and the World | 1846–47 | 30.1 | 46.2 | Oil on panel museum entry |
Brooklyn Museum | 33.274 |
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Study for The Pilgrim of the World at the End of His Journey | c. 1847 | 30.48 | 45.72 | museum entry | Smithsonian American Art Museum | 1988.1 |
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The Cross and the World: The Pilgrim of the Cross at the End of His Journey | 1846–1848 | 30.48 | 45.72 | museum entry | Smithsonian American Art Museum | 1965.10 |
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The Cross and the World: The Pilgrim of the World on his Journey | 1846–47 | 30 | 46 | museum entry | Albany Institute of History & Art | 1943.83 |
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The Pic-Nic | 1846 | 121.6 | 137.2 | museum entry | Brooklyn Museum | 67.205.2 |
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Arch of Nero | 1846 | museum search | Newark Museum | |||
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The Mountain Ford | 1846 | 71.8 | 101.8 | museum entry | Metropolitan Museum of Art | 15.30.63 |
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Indian Pass | 1847 | 101.8 | 75.6 | museum entry | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | 95.138 |
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Prometheus Bound | 1847 | museum entry | Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | 1997.28 | ||
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Genesee Scenery | 1847 | 130.8 | 99.7 | museum entry | Rhode Island School of Design Museum | 38.054 |
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Home in the Woods | 1847 | museum entry | Reynolda House Museum of American Art | |||
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The Good Shepherd | 1848 | 32 | 48 | museum entry | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | 2007.10 |
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Cross at Sunset | 1848 | 81.8 | 122.4 | Oil on canvas museum entry |
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum | 96 (1980.15) |
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Italian Landscape (formerly The Catskills from Saugerties) | ? | 13.3 | 23.5 | Oil on board museum entry |
Fralin Museum of Art | 1981.104 |
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Dead Rising from Tombs | ? | 19 | 27.5 | Oil on panel museum entry |
Princeton University Art Museum | y1943-110 |
Notes
- ^ Cotter, Holland. "Thomas Cole, American Moralist". New York Times, 15 March 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2018
- ^ Kornhauser, Elizabeth. "Re-examining Thomas Cole". The Magazine Antiques, 8 January 2018 Retrieved 8 May 2018