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Thomas Cole

Landscape (Landscape with Tree Trunks), 1828

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Description

Maker

  • Thomas Cole, 1801-1848, American

Title

Landscape (Landscape with Tree Trunks)

Year

1828

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil paint

Supports

  • canvas

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

  • Paintings

Credit

Walter H. Kimball Fund

Object Number

30.063

Projects & Publications

Publications

Teaching Notes/ Imagining the Americas

Read Online

America en plein air

Impressions by Henry Ruanmn MacGinnis

American Sublime

Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880

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.

An American Idyll

April 6, 2007 - January 6, 2008

Dress, Art, and Society

September 13, 1996 - January 5, 1997

Romanticism and Revival

December 4, 1992 - June 26, 1993

American Painting and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection

June 26, 1987 - January 3, 1988

Selection VII

March 31 - May 8, 1977

To Look on Nature

February 3 - March 5, 1972

Painters of Precise Vision

February 3-28, 1954

Exploring America

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Landscape (Landscape with Tree Trunks) with the accession number of 30.063. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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