Intro to Modern Art History
Cole. Thomas - The Voyage of Life: Childhood (1...
Greedy patrons held Thomas Cole's masterpiece hostage. He responded by painting a secret duplicate series out of pure spite. This...
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Cole. Thomas - View on the Catskill, Early Autu...
Thomas Cole didn't paint autumn leaves because they looked pretty. He painted them because steam engines were hacking up his...
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Cole. Thomas - The Titan's Goblet (1833)
Thomas Cole got tired of painting the Hudson River for rich snobs. In 1833, he went completely rogue and painted...
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Cole. Thomas - Prometheus Bound (1848)
Thomas Cole painted his own slow death. In 1848 America chased stolen land while Cole watched his own body fail....
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Cole. Thomas - The Notch of the White Mountains...
Thomas Cole painted a warning about nature slaughtering a family and the rich art crowd bought it to decorate their...
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Cole. Thomas - View from Mount Holyoke, Northam...
Thomas Cole was sweating his legacy in 1836. He needed a masterpiece to secure his crown. Instead of a boring...
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Cole. Thomas - Mount Etna from Taormina (1843)
Thomas Cole climbed a smoking, angry Mount Etna to grab raw sketches of impending doom because he despised cozy studios....
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Cole. Thomas - The Hunter's Return (1845)
Cole watched his beloved wilderness die and painted a eulogy. Autumn bleeds across the canvas in burnt oranges and fading...
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Cole. Thomas - The Garden of Eden (1828)
Thomas Cole painted paradise with a desperate precision because he saw the American wilderness disappearing. The critics called his vibrant...
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Cole. Thomas - Expulsion from the Garden of Ede...
Thomas Cole split the world in half with oil paint. He turned a biblical eviction into a warning about human...
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