Thomas Cole: Drawings & Paintings (Annotated)

Thomas Cole (1801-1848) was named by the artistic critic founder of the Hudson River School, a group of American artists who painted landscapes in the mid-19th century. The painters of this artistic movement became famous for their realistic, yet monumental and romantic way of presenting in their paintings the American nature, both naturalistic and idealized.
Thomas Cole as one of that artistic circle, most of all a landscape artist, but for him is characteristic allegorical way of imaginati...