The Course of Empire is a series of five paintings created by the English-born American painter Thomas Cole between 1833 and 1836, and now in the collection of the New York Historical. The series depi
Portrait of Thomas Cole by Asher B. Durand, 1837
Cole's 1833 sketch for the arrangement of the paintings around Reed's fireplace: the sketch also shows above the paintings three aspects of the sun: left (rising); center (zenith); right (setting)
The Savage State. Oil on canvas, 1834, 39 ½ × 63 ½ in.
The Arcadian or Pastoral State. Oil on canvas, 1834, 39 ½ × 63 ½ in.
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The New York Historical is an American history museum and library on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The society was founded in 1804 as New York's first museum. It presents exhibiti
The Course of Empire (paintings)
…Empire is a series of five paintings created by the English-born American painter Thomas Cole between 1833 and 1836, and now in the collection of the New York Historical. The series depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city, situated on the lower end of a river valley, near its meeting with a bay of the sea. The…
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Re-enactment of loyalist colonial troops guarding the Society building from George Washington's Rebels
Asher B. Durand, Pastoral Landscape, 1861
The Rapalje Children, John Durand, 1768. Collection of the New York Historical.