Room 227

Thomas Cole

1801–1848, England, USA (Catskill, New York), Hudson River School, Romanticism

Thomas Cole came to the United States from England as a teenager and found his subjects in the Hudson Valley and the Catskill Mountains. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, the first American landscape painting with a character of its own. In large series such as “The Voyage of Life” he used landscapes to tell of childhood, youth, adulthood and old age.

All works

• Sunrise in the Catskills
• The Departure
• The Return
• The Voyage of Life: Childhood
• The Voyage of Life: Youth
• The Voyage of Life: Manhood
• The Voyage of Life: Old Age
• Tornado in an American Forest
• A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch)
• Study for "Catskill Creek"
• Italian Coast Scene with Ruined Tower
• Sketch for Ohio State Capitol Design
• Temples of Juno, Lucina, and Concordia - Agrigentum, Sicily