Genesee Scenery
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Artist | Thomas Cole |
Year | 1847 |
Medium | Oil on Canvas |
Dimensions | 130.8 cm × 99.7 cm (51.5 in × 39.25 in) |
Location | Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island |
Genesee Scenery, also called Mountain Landscape with Waterfall, is an 1847 oil on canvas painting by British-born American painter Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School. The work depicts the Genesee River in New York State.[1]
Artist's background
Tom Christopher wrote that “[Thomas] Cole’s greatest artistic asset proved to be his untutored eye.”[2] Cole emigrated to America with his family in the spring of 1819 at the age of eighteen.[3] As a child, his surroundings were of Lancashire, England, an area known to be an epicenter of Britain’s primarily industrial region. Because of this, Cole was granted an additional clarity of and sensitivity to the vibrancy of American landscapes awash with color, a stark contrast to the bleak and subdued landscapes of the country he left behind.[4]
History
Cole was the first person to depict this section of the Genesee River. The work is currently owned by the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art.[1]
See also
References
External links
- Explore Thomas Cole provided by the National Park Service
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- List of paintings
- Lake with Dead Trees (1825)
- View of Fort Putnam (1825)
- Kaaterskill Falls (1826)
- The Last of the Mohicans: The Death of Cora (c. 1827)
- Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (1828)
- The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge (1829)
- Aqueduct near Rome (1832)
- The Dead Abel (1832)
- Sunset, View on the Catskill (1833)
- The Titan's Goblet (1833)
- The Course of Empire (1833–1836)
- Summer Twilight, A Recollection of a Scene in New-England (1834)
- The Oxbow (1836)
- View of Florence from San Miniato (1837)
- The Architect's Dream (1840)
- The Fountain of Vaucluse (1841)
- The Voyage of Life (1842)
- Roman Campagna (1843)
- Il Penseroso (1845)
- Arch of Nero (1846)
- Genesee Scenery (1847)
- Prometheus Bound (1847)
- Cross at Sunset (c. 1848)
- Kindred Spirits (1849 painting)
- Hudson River School
- Sarah Cole (sister)
- Thomas Cole Mountain
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