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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Thomas Cole was an Anglo-American artist who founded the Hudson River School art movement. He painted romantic landscapes and history paintings. Influenced by European painters, but with a strong Amer
The Course of Empire (paintings)
…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 depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city, situated on…
Daguerreotype of Cole by an unknown photographer, c. 1845, published within the Archives of American Art Journal
Thomas Cole Expulsion from the Garden of Eden Google Art Project
The Oxbow (The Connecticut River near Northampton) (1836)
The Titan's Goblet (1833), oil on canvas; 49 × 41 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York