Clouds
Thomas Cole
ca. 1838
Medium
Oil on paper laid down on canvas
Dimensions
8 3/4 × 10 7/8 in. (22.2 × 27.6 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Morris K. Jesup Fund, 2013
Accession Number
2013.201
Tags
LandscapesClouds
About the Artist
Thomas Cole · 1801–1848
Thomas Cole (1801–1848) was an English-born American painter who founded the Hudson River School, the first major American art movement, and became the most influential landscape painter in nineteenth-century American art. Born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, he emigrated with his family to the United States in 1818, settling first in Ohio before moving to Philadelphia and then New York, where he ...