Painting Thomas Cole

the titan s goblet (1833). oil on canvas; 49 × 41 cm. metropolitan museum of art, new york.

in new york, cole sold 5 paintings george w. bruen, financed summer trip hudson valley artist produced landscapes featuring catskill mountain house, famous kaaterskill falls, ruins of fort putnam, , 2 views of cold spring. returning new york, displayed 5 landscapes in window of william colman s bookstore; according new york evening post 2 views of cold spring purchased mr. a. seton, lent them american academy of fine arts annual exhibition in 1826. garnered cole attention of john trumbull, asher b. durand, , william dunlap. among paintings landscape called view of fort ticonderoga gelyna. trumbull impressed work of young artist , sought him out, bought 1 of paintings, , put him contact number of wealthy friends including robert gilmor of baltimore , daniel wadsworth of hartford, became important patrons of artist.

cole painter of landscapes, painted allegorical works. famous of these five-part series, course of empire, depict same landscape on generations—from near state of nature consummation of empire, , decline , desolation—now in collection of new york historical society , four-part voyage of life. there 2 versions of latter, 1 @ national gallery in washington, d.c., other @ munson-williams-proctor arts institute in utica, new york. among cole s other famous works oxbow (1836) (pictured below), notch of white mountains, daniel boone @ cabin @ great osage lake, , lake dead trees (1825) @ allen memorial art museum. painted garden of eden (1828), lavish detail of adam , eve living amid waterfalls, vivid plants, , deer. in 2014, friezes painted cole on walls of home, had been decorated over, discovered.

cole influenced artistic peers, asher b. durand , frederic edwin church, studied cole 1844 1846. cole spent years 1829 1832 , 1841 1842 abroad, in england , italy.