100 Great Artists

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THOMAS COLE

B()rR Boiton,

Englll1lll, ..... if a

manu/aewu,-if

"XN'/"

familY''"War"

to USA

Stud,,, at

Pbiladdpbia

AGliumyofAn

S"t/" in earshUt,

m-fourllk HIltbon

Rh ',," SdJooI

Tra,-.iJ to Ellro/".

,"un Com",bk.

Lr~'"na I1tId

TUn"r in umd""

II'<..-k iHromn

j","llJing/y

u/igi(}UJ

Rn 'irirr EUriif"

1);" in ,Y".:I )or} Ni.W"',. F"lls (1867) by ]i""kTid C hurch

JlJamr<! ",,_ami, lamb.""", Church t."ilJ rb, only papil"1 OJ. Imd

"'p"",ihl. flK """' 'l:.wulnfol imag" if fr,·industrial Am,.,-;"" in ,b.

I{",,,amic ,,,,diti,,,,, Hi, NiaW'''' '" lis rrod,.,.., rbi, '"00 ;proacuJllr

ph"",,"m.., t."jtb a typicaUy impmd mill arr(6nph',b.d bandJing if light,

'P"" arid ';:a',.,.

W

~h,.., ~Jnll,,1 rraining, 'he ~Ju ndct

of the innut.",i,,] lluds<", Rj"cr

Sol",,,!. T homasCole, ic:.m"] 'he

b»;cs of oil painting from .n itinerant

1"J<,nitist in O hio, II" f(~I()w,,1 tha' with" sdf·

,"ught d,.,,,ing I''''grammc: tha' would "'n'c ,,,

undt'll in.1I his land=pc wori<.

C,~c'. pmgrcss to IUD "''''~nition w"lS "'pid.

Ilis I"intings ""ulting from his firSt trip up the

Ilud«", to thc C:t~4.i1l ,\")untains earn,,] :tn

cnthusi.'tic "'''''I" i(", in Ncw '''rI.:. IIr 1829,

when C,~e ,i,it"'] Eu"~lC, he w"lS "'V"]"'] "lS

Amcric:i's It .. ding p,inter of .wc_inSl'iring

s""ncrr , singlc_h.ndcdlr ""I)(JI~,ihlc for

in", .. ]u<ing the notion of the Rom'ntic

l:tnd""l'e. As OnC who h.d grown up in •

m.nuf.cruring envirunmcnt, C ole " .. s ,'err

",,,,iti,'c to the Lfll:crs of indu"ri'~"ti(", 'n<l

(b ngcrs of <ity 'I'",wl.

G)le returned to Amcric:i with .mbitious

p],ns j;:Jr a hiSto<r-strle ,lIcgoric:i1 ",r ies,

entitled 711, C"uru"f Empn-.. II()w<~'cr, his

l"mIlS I"ctrt",d his "i ..... ,. of Americ:in rn IUrc,

which thcr rCl'c",d almOst a. re~gious im'gcs.

Aftcr ,nothcr trip n) Eur(~le in 1 fW 1~2, C,~e

.dol'",d the prodigiously t.lent<,] F r"']erid

Church (18!6-1900) .. his pupil. Follo,,'ing

C<~c's sttrtlinglr earlr death in IfW8, C hurch

show",] him,.,lf wcll .ble to c:irrr o n the

Ilu']s"n Ri,,::r t"'(~ti,,,,. Like C~e, he 1"'1"m]