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Thomas Cole

Landscape (Landscape with Tree Trunks), 1828

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Description

Maker

Title

Landscape (Landscape with Tree Trunks)

Year

1828

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

Dimensions

66.4 x 81.9 cm (26 1/8 x 32 1/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed and dated LC:T. Cole 1828 Boston

Type

Credit

Walter H. Kimball Fund

Object Number

30.063

Projects & Publications

Publications

Selection VII

American Painting from the Museum's Collection, c.1800-1930

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Making It In America

October 11, 2013 - February 9, 2014

Thomas Cole’s early paintings celebrated unspoiled nature in a land ripe with promise, combining acute observation with European conventions of the picturesque and the sublime. An English immigrant, Cole studied in Philadelphia before establishing his career in New York. Trips to New England and the Catskills provided material for landscapes painted later in the studio.

Here, a passing storm reveals a mountaintop bathed in sunlight; a blasted tree, dead from a lightning strike, mediates between heaven and earth and suggests the cycle of life. Human presence is interjected at the top of the waterfall, where a Native American salutes nature’s magnificence.

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