Landscape with Tower (from McGuire Scrapbook)
Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (21.6 x 16.5 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of James C. McGuire, 1926
Accession Number
26.216.20
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About this artwork
Thomas Cole (1801-1848), founder of the Hudson River School and the first major artistic movement born in America, created this graphite drawing during his influential career celebrating American wilderness. Born in England and emigrating to the United States in 1818, Cole became the leading American landscape painter of his generation, transforming how Americans perceived their natural environment. This sketch, preserved in the McGuire Scrapbook, demonstrates Cole's working method of making det...
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 ...