Study for "Catskill Creek"

Thomas Cole

c. 1844/1845

Study for "Catskill Creek" by Thomas Cole

Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 30.5 x 45.7 cm (12 x 18 in.) framed: 40 x 54.9 x 5.1 cm (15 3/4 x 21 5/8 x 2 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CAB

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Avalon Fund

Accession Number

1998.67.1

About the Artist

Thomas Cole · 18011848

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 ...

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